General Kit

Clothing

• Underwear and normal socks
• T-Shirt or Shirt
• Fleece or Pullover
• Windproof fleece
• Outdoor trousers
• Thick socks
• Waterproof Jacket
• Waterproof Trousers
• Long Johns
• Insulated jacket

Other

• Rucksack
• Food for the day
• Waterbottle
• Penknife or Swiss Army Officers Knife
• Tissues or Handkerchief
• Small First Aid Kit, Emergency Blanket and blister plasters
• Sun glasses
• Sun tan lotion
• Lipcare
• Torch
• Biwi sack
• Hat (for rain and sun)

Documents etc

• EHIC card
• Travel insurance
• Passport
• Money
• Credit/debit cards
• Driving licence (plastic and paper parts for hiring cars)
• Travel tickets
• Watch
• Altimeter/GPS
• (Spare glasses)
• Mobile phone and charger
• Power adapter for other countries
• Maps and map case
• Guidebooks
• Compass
• Whistle
• BMC card/Reciprocal hut card/AV card
• Copies of documents and addresses and phone numbers for emergencies (possibly in on-line e-mail account)
• Camera
• Spare batteries
• Video camera edititng suite/SLR camera and 5 extra lenses/tripods/camera bag selection
• Matches

Hill walking

• Warm hat
• Warm gloves
• Light hill walking boots or trekiking shoes
• Optional: Walking sticks

Via Ferrata/Klettersteig

• Leather or working gloves (or via ferrata gloves)
• Helmet
• Sit harness
• Chest harness
• Via Ferrate set/Klettersteig set

Alpine Rock

Clothing

• Mountain boots or Rock climbing boots
• Warm hat
• Gloves

Gear

• Sit harness
• Chest harness
• Helmet
• 2 HMS Karabiners
• 2 Screwgates
• 2-3 quick draws
• 1 piece of tape 1m
• 1 piece of tape 2m
• 1 sling 60cm
• 2 slings 120cm
• various nuts
• 2 prussik loops (1.25m and 1.5m x 5mm)
• 1 sling 240cm (or equivalent cord)

Sport climbing

General

• Sit harness
• Helmet
• 1 HMS Karabiner
• 1 Screw gate
• 12 quick draws per team
• 1 sling 60cm
• 1 single rope 60m
• Rock shoes
• Chalk

Multi pitch sport climbing extras

• 2 prussik loops (1.25m and 1.5m x 5mm)
• 1 additional screw gate

On sportingly bolted routes some trad equipment may be required (small set of nuts and a couple of hexes)

Trad climbing

Take everything from the sport climbing section and additionally:

• 20 nuts
• 5-7 hexes
• 3-9 friends
• 2 slings 120cm
• 2 slings 240cm
• as many tri-cams as you can carry
• 3 extra screw gates per second
• some tat
• 1 extra HMS Karabiner
• …

Multi pitch climbing requires more gear, single pitch climbing less.

Ice

• Mountain boots suitable for crampons B2/B3
• Fitting crampons
• Knee high gaiters
• Warm hat and gloves
• Scarf or buff
• Glacier glasses
• Sit harness
• Chest harness
• Crampons for boots
• Ice axe
• 2 HMS Karabiners
• Belay device
• 2 Screw gates
• 1 Quickdraw
• 1 piece of tape 2m
• 2 prussik loops (1.25m and 1.5m x 5mm)
• possibly ice screws

Ski touring

• Ski touring boots
• Knee high gaiters
• Warm hat and gloves
• Scarf or buff
• Ski with touring bindings
• Ski sticks
• Steigfelle
• Harscheisen
• Avalanche search gizmo

Multi-day trips

• Change(s) of clothes
• Washbag and towel
• Slippers or thick socks
• Sheet bag or sleeping bag

Camping

• Sleeping matt
• Tent
• Cutlery and crockery for personal use
• Stove and gas
• Pots and pans
• Matches/lighter