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Ski Mountaineering Insurance
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Going on a Ski mountaineering trip this April. We have a guide and it will involve glacier travel and probably some fairly technical stuff.

I'm not covered by my direct travel insurance which specifically excludes ski mountaineering and glacier travel. Can someone reccomend a rescue insurance package ?

I'm thinking about a BMC policy. Any experience ? thanks.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Austrian Alpine Club membership comes with rescue insurance and is pretty cheap - you need to make sure there aren't any other holes in your cover

BMC is very comprehensive but you may be able to do cheaper if you piece it all together yourself
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Maybe not the cheapest but Snowcard certainly understand about ski mountaineering. They have 7 different levels of sports activity.

http://www.snowcard.co.uk/pages/index.asp

http://www.snowcard.co.uk/pages/policy_activity.asp
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Thanks Arno, I was just looking at Autrian Alpine Club membership. I'll look even further into it. Thanks !
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Peter S, I recently used http://www.etravelinsure.com/index.htm for cover for a skydiving holiday and I see they do off piste and rock climbing in their list of hazardous activities,

See http://www.etravelinsure.com/travel_insurance_sports_activities.htm
plus I was able to de-select baggage and cancellation cover that I had on another general travel policy... but I see they have put skydiving in its own special (more expensive) catagory now...
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Peter S wrote:
Going on a Ski mountaineering trip this April. We have a guide and it will involve glacier travel and probably some fairly technical stuff.


which country?
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 Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...

I've used Snowcard.co.uk a few times - for ski touring & mountainbiking. Prices are reasonable.
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

I use Dogtag - their extreme-sports covers just about everything.

One note of caution however: their 3 levels of cover have £100, £200 & £300 excess (which I guess is reasonable if you're going to be heli'd off in the Himalayas Shock ) - so the extreme-sport cover is the £300 excess...

What I'd overlooked is I'd taken out an annual cover to include summer hols as well as ski-mountaineering & piste skiing, so any claim (even on a low risk holiday) would still carry the same excess, which could be a bummer...
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BMC no question.
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Ihave used Dog Tag recently, although not for specific mountaineering trips. I have never found much useful feedback about their service so don't feel entirely comfortable with them! Assuming they live upto their aparrent offer, they are very good value.

I have always used BMC when I was doing really exciting stuff. They are thoroughly tested and relliable.
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French insurance is more often cheaper and gives better cover for this type of thing. The best option out there in my opinion is this
http://www.auvieuxcampeur.fr/assurance
25 euros for the basic cover.
If you want to go over 4000m then take the altitude/distance option at an extra 38 euros.
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