Summits of Lake O’Hara

Rockfall and icefall

• Rockfall and icefall can be caused by natural forces, or by people travelling through the terrain (Climbing/Scrambling/Hiking)
  What are the risks
• Impact from a falling rock or ice can result in injury or death and can also damage equipment such as ropes.

Hazard Mitigation

• Our ACMG certified guides have experience and training to manage this risk
• Your guide will ask you to put on a helmet when in the mountains

Avalanche

• Avalanches can occur in the terrain you will be entering. Caused by natural forces, or by people travelling through the terrain
  What are the risks
• Anyone caught in a avalanche is at risk of personal injury, death, and or property damage or loss

Hazard Mitigation

• Our ACMG certified guides have experience and training to manage this risk
• Daily risk assessment processes
• Guest training if avalanches are a risk on your trip

Terrain

• Cornices
• Crevasses
• Trees, tree wells, and tree stumps
• Creeks
• Rocks and Boulders
• Variable and difficult walking terrain
• Impact or collision with other persons or objects
• Encounters with domestic or wild animals
• Contact with poisonous flora or fauna
• Loss of balance or control
• Slips, trips, and falls

Hazard Mitigation

• Our ACMG certified guides have experience and training to manage this risk
• Radios and/or other communication devices

Falls and belaying

• Mountaineering and ice climbing present the risk of falling from the wall causing the climber to collide with the wall or ground
• There is also the risk of a belay failure, which can contribute to a ground fall

Hazard Mitigation

• Your guide will review best belay practices with you or will control the belay

Communication, rescue, and medical treatment

• Communication can be difficult and in the event of an accident rescue and treatment may not be available
• Adverse weather may also delay the arrival of treatment or transportation out of the field,
• Alpine weather conditions can be extreme and change rapidly without warning making travel by helicopter, snowmobile, snowcat, dangerous
• If an injury occurs in challenging terrain movement to an evacuation point may be slow

Hazard Mitigation

• Your guide is trained in both backcountry first-aid and rescue techniques
• Emergency response plans
• Satellite communication tools

Other

• Slips trips and falls indoor or outdoor
• Infectious disease contracted via direct or indirect contact, including but not limited to influenza or Covid-19
• Equipment failure
• Negligence of other persons, including other guests
• Negligence of the guide Including failure to take reasonable steps to safeguard or protect you from or warn you of risk, dangers, hazards, while participating in ACC activities

Hazard Mitigation

• Your guide is trained in both backcountry first-aid and rescue techniques
• Satellite communication tools