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Winter Mountaineering and Ice Climbing

Scotland provides excellent conditions for winter mountaineering and ice climbing for both beginners and experienced climbers

Winter Mountaineering and Ice Climbing in Scotland 2019 - Best Time
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If you are an achiever who likes to overcome obstacles and challenge nature, you can really test yourself with Scottish winter mountaineering and ice climbing. Local operators offer a number of mountaineering courses of various levels of complexity including hard ice climbing weekends for extreme enthusiasts. Unexperienced climbers are strongly advised to start with training courses and guided mountaineering is prefarable. It would be wise to first try your hand at ice climbing on the indoor ice wall available in Glasgow. The season runs from January to March.

Winter hiking on the Crianlarich Hills 2019
Winter hiking on the Crianlarich Hills

© Doug Collinson

View of Glencoe by the River Coupall 2019
View of Glencoe by the River Coupall

© VisitScotland / Paul Tomkins

Tackling the crux of Comb Gully (IV, 4), Ben Nevis 2019
Tackling the crux of Comb Gully (IV, 4), Ben Nevis

© Colin Wells

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