Snow and avalanches update
For ski pros and ski touring experts
The offer is aimed at all those who are regularly and often off-piste and want to bring their knowledge up to date, explicitly also to ski instructors and guides with comparable qualifications. Sepp Hümmer, state-certified army mountain guide and member of the avalanche commission, will teach you in this intensive training the latest findings of analytical and probabilistic risk assessment and also update you on avalanche beacons and first aid for avalanche accidents.
Program and schedule
- Avalanche expert
- Ortovox test equipment
- Course documents
- Online Training: Avalanche Update (1 h)
Training content:
- Update of current doctrines (mountain guides, ski instructors and avalanche commission) in snow and avalanche science: GKMR (danger, consequences, measures, risk), analytical and probabilistic risk assessment.
- Status of digital route planning
- Update different block test and snow profiles
- Development and assessment of the hazard levels of LLBs.
- Update physical relationships in the snowpack and formation of weak layers.
- Update avalanche beacon on avalanche field
- Update first aid measures after avalanche accidents
The Snow and Avalanche Update is an offer to experts who have experience in snow and avalanche knowledge, in the use of snowcard or reduction method, to all who are regularly off piste and also to those who lead groups.

"A lot has happened in snow and avalanche science. The development is far from complete. From my point of view, it is therefore indispensable for all those who are regularly out and about in the snow or who also lead groups to regularly update themselves."
Sepp Hümmer
State-certified army mountain guide
Member of the Avalanche Commission
Member of the VIVALPIN Competence Team