The following is a typical schedule, with the guide fine tuning the plan according to the prevailing weather conditions and the experience of the group. Day 1: Welcome at the meeting point. The guide organizes luggage transport to Braunschweiger Hütte, 3 hours ascent to the hut. The guide hands out and adjusts the rental equipment. After dinner: preview of the activities of the week. Day 2: Foot balance and placement, glacier training: walking technique with crampons, use of ice axe, how to arrest a slide on snow with ice axe, roping up for glacier crossing, knots and rope technique. Planning the next day. Day 3: Glacier training - standard operating procedures (sops) on glaciers, moving in a roped party, various crampon techniques, orientation, reading maps. Planning the next day. Day 4: Glacier training - roping up, rope pulley, crevasse rescue, anchors and running belays on snow and ice. Planning the next day. Day 5: Climbing training – rope up for climbing, rapelling, climbing technique, first aid and rescue training, rock anchors, how to belay and move on an easy rock ridge. Planning the next day. Day 6: Training, how to react when slipping or sliding on firn and snow slopes, climbing in steep ice, multi pitch ice climbing, techniques for retreating in ice. After dinner: reflections on the week. Day 7: Descent to St. Leonhard, farewell around 12:00 In the evenings, there will be lectures on orientation, reading maps, alpine dangers and alpine weather. The area is covered by AV-Map > 30/6 Ötztaler Alpen Wildspitze KOMBI<, available from leo.wurzer@alpenverein.at, or from the AAC(UK) Office.