Harder than you think: Intro to Ice Climbing

We have 4 glacier guides in Iceland introducing you to Ice Climbing. This was going to be 3 episodes of Gear, Anchors, and Technique but we were able to smash it all cohesively into the one video you see above. Naturally, as this was filmed in Iceland by Iceland guides, this is taught on glacial ice. Waterfall ice climbing is a bit different but many of the things shared here cross over super good enough at the beginning level.

This is intended to read and watch before you go ice climbing with someone who knows what they are doing, so you can absorb things a lot faster. It would have been super helpful to have seen this before going ourselves instead of showing up "cold turkey". Please don't watch an hour-long video on youtube of people you don't know and then put knives on your feet and sharp axes in your hands and try this stuff on your own. There is no way all the nuances of your context can be covered and you don't know what you don't know and could get hurt as a result.

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Intro to Ice Climbing
00:04:05 GEAR: Your guides
00:05:28 GEAR: Harness
00:06:37 GEAR: Helmet
00:07:13 GEAR: Boots and Crampons
00:19:47 GEAR: Ice axes
00:29:10 ANCHORS: Ice Screws
00:36:02 ANCHORS: Anchor Theory
00:40:52 ANCHORS: Installing Edge Safety
00:43:21 ANCHORS: Over the edge top rope anchor
00:51:27 ANCHORS: Top rope set up
00:56:00 TECHNIQUE: The concepts
00:59:39 TECHNIQUE: 2-Hand Method
01:04:37 TECHNIQUE: A Frame Method
01:09:07 TECHNIQUE: How NOT to do it
01:13:43 ANCHORS: Top belaying anchor
01:15:25 TECHNIQUE: The Gnar