Well......
Tomorrow I set off on my travels to Switzerland. Though due to staying in an airport hotel thing we don't actually get there until Sunday, where I shall be heading up the cog railway to Leysin to meet the guides and participants on the ISM student alpine week. Here I will learning all the skills needed for mountaineering in the alps and throughout the week we should be doing all sorts from: Rock Climbing, to Ice Climbing to Crevasse Rescue. We should also be summiting a 3300 metre peak, which will be the highest I've been so far. While I'm doing all of this Mum and Dad will be going around Switzerland on the train. In the second week we will then be heading over to Lucerne a beautiful Swiss city laying under Mount Pilatus. Don't know what I will be doing in that week, but I'm shall I'll find stuff to do. Hopefully we will visit Zermatt where there are stunning views of the Matterhorn aswell as going up the Cog railway where we will see the highest Northface in the alps....The Northwall of the Eiger. Pretty excited about that. Anyway the down side to this beautiful country though is that everything is likely to be ridiculously expensive. So it will unlikely that we'll be eating out on this holiday, but thats alright because we are staying in a house with this guy who owns a pub in Lucerne and there will be self catering facilities. I am pretty excited about this whole thing. I'm still getting over my last holiday in the Picos de Europa, where I went up Pena Vieja at 2613m the highest mountain I have been up to date aswell explored other mountains in the area. Its in places like that where I am in my element!
Anyway will post about the course when I am in Lucerne at the start of second week (this is previding the internet cafes and too expensive!), and will perhaps post about my second week towards the end. I remember in Potes in the Picos it worked out at about 50p for 30minutes internet time, but it some how seems unlikely in Switzerland.
Keep an eye open for any news.....
Ethan
Tomorrow I set off on my travels to Switzerland. Though due to staying in an airport hotel thing we don't actually get there until Sunday, where I shall be heading up the cog railway to Leysin to meet the guides and participants on the ISM student alpine week. Here I will learning all the skills needed for mountaineering in the alps and throughout the week we should be doing all sorts from: Rock Climbing, to Ice Climbing to Crevasse Rescue. We should also be summiting a 3300 metre peak, which will be the highest I've been so far. While I'm doing all of this Mum and Dad will be going around Switzerland on the train. In the second week we will then be heading over to Lucerne a beautiful Swiss city laying under Mount Pilatus. Don't know what I will be doing in that week, but I'm shall I'll find stuff to do. Hopefully we will visit Zermatt where there are stunning views of the Matterhorn aswell as going up the Cog railway where we will see the highest Northface in the alps....The Northwall of the Eiger. Pretty excited about that. Anyway the down side to this beautiful country though is that everything is likely to be ridiculously expensive. So it will unlikely that we'll be eating out on this holiday, but thats alright because we are staying in a house with this guy who owns a pub in Lucerne and there will be self catering facilities. I am pretty excited about this whole thing. I'm still getting over my last holiday in the Picos de Europa, where I went up Pena Vieja at 2613m the highest mountain I have been up to date aswell explored other mountains in the area. Its in places like that where I am in my element!
Anyway will post about the course when I am in Lucerne at the start of second week (this is previding the internet cafes and too expensive!), and will perhaps post about my second week towards the end. I remember in Potes in the Picos it worked out at about 50p for 30minutes internet time, but it some how seems unlikely in Switzerland.
Keep an eye open for any news.....
Ethan
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