Event Details

Lectures: Amercian Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St.,Golden, CO 80401

Field Day: Loveland Pass

​Please contact Seminar Director Dan Feighery at dan.feighery@gmail.com with your HAMS or equivalent experience by Friday April 7^th to receive your passcode for registration. 

This class is open to any current High Altitude Mountaineering School (HAMS) students, HAMS graduates, or CMC members with equivalent experience building 3:1 haul systems. 

Our lectures and real-life field scenario will give you the skills needed to rescue a climbing partner who has fallen into a crevasse as well as mitigate your own risk should you fall into one. After this seminar, the skills learned will prepare you to confidently travel on not just well-trodden trade routes but on some of the less populated glacier routes around the world where being self-sufficient is mandatory. 

The Advanced Crevasse Rescue Seminar consists of two lectures and one field day:

• Lecture Nights: Monday, April 17th & Monday April 24th; both lectures are at the American Mountaineering Center (AMC) in Golden and begin at 6:30 PM


• Field Day: Saturday, April 29th; meeting at the AMC at 5:00 AM and caravanning to Loveland Pass

Our intent is that by the end of the seminar students will be able to:

1. Build a system which allows them to lower a fallen climber, if need be, in addition to raising one


2. Build a 5:1 haul system


3. Build a 6:1 haul system


4. Successfully rescue climber from a crevsse fall that is not in one of the end positions on the rope team


5. Tend to themselvesf when in a crevasse and be prepared, as the fallen climber, to help in their own rescue​​

​Our expectation is that students will have already mastered the construction of a 3:1 haul system PRIOR to this seminar. The 3:1 system will be the basis for both our 5:1 and 6:1 systems. Refresher materials will be sent to students prior to the first lecture. We will not be reviewing the 3:1 system as part of this class so preparation is a MUST.