Climbing mountain sports and half-year course autumn
Lofoten is perfect for climbing and steep outdoor activities. On this course you will learn traditional climbing, sport climbing, bouldering, and traversing on the mountain, and will experience the Northern Norwegian mountains at their best.
For those of you who
- Will learn a lot about climbing and alpine skiing
- likes to have it airy, steep and high
- Will experience some of Norway's most spectacular mountain areas
Experience eThe Nordic world offers fantastic opportunities for alpine tours, climbing, and steep outdoor activities. The Lofoten Mountains become our most used play area, but we also make trips to other northern Norwegian mountain areas, and spend the night in tents and cabins.
Through the climbing course and the bream course in the autumn, you will get security, knowledge and skills to conduct your own rope and safety equipment trips, and there is a wealth of climbing opportunities near the school. During the autumn, you will receive comprehensive first aid training and learn buddy rescue techniques.
We take advantage of the mountains in Lofoten and Northern Norway with everything they have to offer!
FALL
FALL
- climbing
- sports climbing
- Top tours
- demolition
- outdoor activities
- travel planning
- tent and camping table setting
- First aid
- fracture
- tourmate
- personal conduct
This is what you will learn:
- climbing course
- brattkortkurs
- sports climbing and bouldering outside
- mountain hikes, summit hikes and tree climbing
- Basic orientation
- first aid and buddy rescue
- tour planning and guiding
- basic outdoor activities
- relevant basic training
- extensive knowledge of the use and maintenance of equipment
- use of step-irons and ice axes
In September we go to Storsteinbreen or Svartisen for glacier hiking.
Here we practice basic skills on skis, such as step-off techniques and the use of ice axes. We go in the taulag and practice buddy rescue on skis. This trip is not only a very beautiful nature experience, but also important for our preparation for later trips in winter where we may have to cross glaciers. Glaciers may, for all we know, be an endangered part of our natural environment in Norway. That makes the ski trips an exclusive and beautiful nature experience, and an opportunity to reflect on the changes taking place in the environment we live in today.
Who does the line serve?
Everyone who likes to go hiking with good friends, enjoy great views, explore new climbing routes, and become more confident in the mountains and on the climbing wall.
During the semester course Lofoten Folkehøgskole, you become part of the school routine and get to know students and teachers from other departments at the school, as well as taking various common subjects and elective courses during the autumn.
Many students have had an experience in Lofoten during a year there solid foundation for further climbing activity; whether it be sports, traditions or alpine skiing.
The teacher
Ole Christian Fredriksen
born in 1973 and has run a tour company and worked as a guide and instructor in Lofoten for ten years.
He comes from Oslo, where he worked as a printer before moving to Reine, in the far north of Lofoten, to follow his dream of living off the land and the outdoors. He studied outdoor activities at the Norwegian Sports Academy, and also works as a guide for Hvitserk & Eventyrreiser, where he has guided tours to high mountains in both the Himalayas and the Andes.
His interest in outdoor activities began at the age of seven, wearing a Boy Scout uniform and a small knife, in the local Boy Scout group in Tåsen, where he grew up.
He is also a rescue climber in Norwegian alpine rescue groups. And is currently undergoing training to become a ski guide at Nortind.
Ole Christian has extensive experience as a climbing instructor and is also responsible for the school's kayaking activities.
Feel free to write if you have any questions: ole-christian@lofotenfolkehogskole.no
Information
On this page you will find everything you need when you arrive at the school, both for living in the hostel and for the lessons, as well as good tips for other cool things you might want to bring along.
Former students tell
All those good friends, the mountains bathed in evening sun, the cold sea spray, the feeling of standing on top and looking out, the water lapping at the sides of the kayak, sunsets and sunrises on the pier, cocoa and knitting by the fire when the darkness falls. Warm hugs, tough discussions, kind words and thought-provoking conversations.
This is the place. This is the whole package (and a little more).
It’s a lot about nature, but just as much about the people you share it with. There are so many places to meet and build good relationships – in line classes, in the homeroom, during electives, in the dormitories, or around the dinner table.
Since I moved here, I’ve found myself thinking more often than before that life can be wonderful.
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