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AWE trips are built as a ladder. Each level gives you what you need for the next one. Answer six quick questions below, or read the levels and pick the one that sounds like you.
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Stepping Stone
No experience needed · Backpacking and trekking
Two to ten days. Real adventures on their own, and the best way to get ready for bigger mountains.
- Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim Backpack Booking now
- Salkantay to Machu Picchu With WHOA Travel
Basecamp Clinics
Learn the skills · 3,000 to 5,700 m (9,800 to 18,700 ft)
Four to eight days on approachable but serious peaks. Crampons, ice axe, rope team, crevasse rescue.
- Pico de Orizaba Applications open
- Mount Baker Mountaineering School Booking now
- Rope Team Rising Interest list
High Camp
Go higher · 5,500 to 6,200 m (18,000 to 20,300 ft)
Longer trips at real altitude: glaciated peaks in Peru, high passes in Nepal, Kilimanjaro. For people with a skills course or a first big peak behind them.
- Ishinca and Tocllaraju Booking now
- Nepal Passes and Peaks Interest list
- Kilimanjaro With WHOA Travel
Peak Expeditions
Big, long and cold · Near 7,000 m (23,000 ft)
About three weeks. For people with time at altitude and multi-day backcountry trips behind them.
- Aconcagua 360 Booking now
- Lenin Peak Applications open
- Aconcagua Normal Route Interest list
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