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Ski Mountaineering, Ski Touring & Randonnée Insurance
Ski Mountaineering Travel Insurance
Ski Mountaineering is a sport that combines the techniques of
skiing (often ski touring) with those of mountaineering. The goal
of ski mountaineering is to climb a beautiful mountain by a worthy
route and then ski the mountain down an elegant line, preferably
from the summit.
While using skiing techniques for much of the time, ski
mountaineers climb otherwise inaccessible or dangerous slopes on
foot using a range of mountaineering equipment - typically
crampons, ice axes and ropes - while skis are carried strapped to
their backpack. This either permits access to extreme slopes, or
more often allows transit through otherwise impassable terrain in
order to continue beyond on skis, where normal ski touring
equipment such as skins and ski crampons are used.
Plainly then, Ski Mountaineering and Ski Touring are sports which
are as much as, or more akin to Mountaineering than they are to
skiing. Consequently, these sports will most likely take you into
the wild and untracked places of the mountains where the risks of
exposure to cold, fatigue, injury and avalanche are greater than in
other commonly skied areas of the mountains and underwriters
recognise these increased risks by categorising Ski Mountaineering
as 'extreme'. Accordingly you'll find Dogtag Ski Mountaineering
travel insurance on the Dogtag Extreme column of the Dogtag Sports
List. On that list you'll also find Ski Randonée, the 'race'
version of Ski Mountaineering. It's also, of course, an
Extreme-level sport.
If you chose the Extremelevel of cover for say, Ski Mountaineering,
it will automatically cover you for lower Sport and Sport+grades of
skiing too as well as a host of other sports. If you want to know
which category each sport falls into just check the Sports
List.
While we're on the subject, Ski Mountaineering shouldn't be
confused with Off Piste Skiing which has it's own definition and is
categorised as Sport
By the way, we're conscious that most ski mountaineering is done in
the Alps and the Pyrenees but if you're taking out an Annual
Multi-Trip policy you might want to think about Worldwide cover
rather than simply a cover for Europe; we occasionally get emails
from customers wanting to upgrade to Worldwide from Europe cover -
they forgot about their summer sun holiday! Just a thought.