glacier training

The hub and I will be doing our honeymoon later on this year - that is to say climbing kilimanjaro and then safari and then relaxing finally in Zanzibar.

Sounds exhausting, and although we do do lots of activities, we're not sporty types, hence the need to get into shape!

How? Well every wkend we have to hike at least 1000m elevation and in August we will attempt the peak of monte rosa in Italy (4000m) but as it part glacier, we had to go through a glacier course just off Mont Blanc (in the Italian side) at 3500m. We learnt to tie different knots, walk in safely tied up together, the do's and don'ts of montaineering and how to make an ice anchor if smone falls into a crevice.