- Program Details
- Itinerary
- Prices and Inclusions
- Service Details
Ice Climb (Frozen Waterfall Climb) is the activity of ascending ice formations. It is combination of ice climbing gear-use learning, roping technique, ice technical climbing. This trip is for ice-climbing beginners as well as advancers. This trip is aimed to improve climbers’ ability to climb ice and measure, know the risks of ice climb, to make climbers know and use the techniques of ice climb in future ice or mountain climbs.
Mt. Siguniang has sunny winter and temperature during daytime is at around 5C. It has over dozens of frozen waterfalls in Shuangqiao Valley and its surrounding areas. The best time to do Ice Climb in Siguniang is from mid December to the next February.
What to Expect
Learn how to use Ice Climbing Gears and Climb Ice
This will include detailed instructions on how to use helmet, harness, climbing boots and crampons, ice tools. You will learn how to wear these gears by yourself and have chance to gear up as a climber. You will have a try of climbing ice on some of the icefalls in/near Siguniang. This is a great experience to try out ice climbing while not commiting too much time and gears.
Low Temperature and High Altitude
Please expect low temperature between -10C and -15C in the early morning and night. During the day the temperature is between 0C and 8C. You are recommended to prepare sufficient warm keeping gears and clothing for this tour. The altitude in Siguniang is at above 3000m and by where we do ice climbing it is at around 3500m. We recommend you to acclimate by yourself propperly.
Skill-Based Ice Climb
- Learn the risks in Ice Climb, learn the countermeasures of the risks, build up sense of safety in Ice Climb
- Learn the facts of Ice Climbing
- Learn and master the basics of Ice Climbing techniques
- Learn and know Top-rope Climb in Ice Climb
Day01 Chengdu - Mt. Siguniang
Tour start by driving from Chengdu city and we will arrive Siguniang in the afternoon and sign up by the Siguniang Authority Office. Drive to Shuangqiao (or Jiesi Valley depending on availability and accessibility) and check in to lodge. Be briefed on the tour plan and learn the gears after dinner. Overnight altitude at 3200m by lodge.
Day02 Ice Climbing
Gear using, Ice climbing, Top-rope climb. Overnight same place.
Day 03 Ice Climbing
Gear using, Ice climbing, Top-rope climb. Overnight same place.
Day 04 Ice Climbing
Gear using, Ice climbing, Top-rope climb. Drive back to Chengdu City, tour ends.
Private Tour Only
- CNY16530 PP for group size 1 people;
- CNY11790 PP for group size 2 people;
- CNY10410 PP for group size 3 people;
- CNY9570 PP for group size 4 people;
- CNY9190 PP for group size 5 people;
- CNY8830 PP for group size 6 people;
- CNY8660 PP for group size 7 people;
- CNY8460 PP for group size 8 people;
- CNY8370 PP for group size 9 people;
- CNY8240 PP for group size 10 people;
- CNY8190 PP for group size 11 people;
- CNY8160 PP for group size 12 people; (recommended largest group size)
Price Inclusions
- Ice Climbing Instructor;
- Entrance Fees and Climbing Fees;
- Overnight Lodge(Economy/Comfortable, twin-sharing);
- Food: Breakfasts and Dinners;
- Drinking water;
- Transfer from/back to Chengdu and any local transfers;
- Personal Ice Climbing Gears;
- Shared ice climbing gears;
- Logistics.
Price Exlcusions
- Other Hotels/activities/food;
- Lunches;
- Single Room Supplement CNY780;
- Personal Clothing and other personal gears;
- Other visits and activities not listed;
- Gratitude tips to guide/instructor.
- Well-experienced Ice Climbing Instructor
- Years of training and climbing;
- Guide did the ice routes many times and has the knowledge about the climb;
- Guide knows the risks and the counter-measures;
- All guides are licensed;
- Service-oriented and English-speaking based
- Basic Lodge but with easy access to the ice;
- Drinking water supply while climb;
- Guide knows the risks and the counter-measures;
- All logistics support, worry-free while in the mountain;
- Private Tour
- Flexibility on dates, Customizable;
- Flexible planning according to travelers preference and needs;
- Private guide, transfer and dinning, no mixing with other groups or travelers.
- Safety is Everything
- Pre-trip support on preparations;
- Well-equipped communication gear including satellite phone and radios;
- Medical support and first response system
Before Signing Up
- a. There is basically no former experience required to do this trip. Anyone with medium fitness level and healthy and has been to over 3000m before can sign up this trip.
- b. A healthy physical condition is required before sign up. You are not opt to sign up such trip if you have any major ailments, cardiovascular disease; heart cerebrovascular disease; cardio-cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, cardiac disease, etc, any former surgeries shall be made known to us. Consult your doctor before sign up for such trip.
- c. Advice given by your guide is crucial. There are unpredictability in a climbing trip, signing up on such trip may expect minor changes of plan. Safety is the first priority under any circumstances. All mountain guides are working under safety guidelines in a climbing trip.
- d. Please care nature and take your trash with you all the time, don’t harm plants and animals;
- e. Personal climbing gears are ncluded. These include helmet, harness, climbing boots and crampons. You may also bring your own gears. Please give care to the gears provided. Climbing boots available are sizes between 36-45 (EU) . Any size smaller or bigger than these need to prepare boots by yourself. People with waistline over 90cm are not recommended to sign up this tour unless you can bring your own harness.
- f. Climbing may not for full day but rather when it is cold and safe due to unreliable climate change, normally the timing is between 9am and 4pm;