Mountain climbing tips for beginners

Climbing a mountain is a fun activity and full of challenges, before we climb a mountain we must know what we have to prepare, and what equipment we bring. Here I will give tips for you beginners climbers:

1. Exercise before climbing

To prepare our bodies When climbing mountains, we must often exercise. We can jog, push up, or go to the gym. Because to prepare our bodies so that nothing happens later when climbing a mountain.

2. Climbing equipment

When climbing the mountain we have to prepare equipment, here there is personal and team equipment. For personal equipment there are: medicine, change of clothes, jacket, rain coat, socks, shoes, whistle, hat, plastic for garbage. And for team equipment: tents, portable stoves, nesting, gas, sleeping bags, carrier bags, and food for the team.

3. Accompanied by people who have been to the mountain 

When climbing a mountain, many climbers often lose their way, and to avoid this incident, we should be accompanied by people who have been to the mountain, or we can learn to read maps and compasses.

4. Find information about the mountain

This is very important because we must know in advance the climbing route, whether the mountain is open or not, know what is prohibited on the mountain.

5. Overcoming problems when climbing

When climbing a mountain, there are many challenges that must be faced, namely losing direction, hypothermia, running out of logistics, our friends fall and can't walk. Here I will give tips for the problems that exist above.

• To overcome the problem of losing direction, we should not panic because it will make us confused. We can get back on track before we get lost or read a map.

• To overcome hypothermia, we must return the victim's body temperature to normal, by making a fireplace, changing the victim's clothes, blanketing the victim with aluminum and sleeping bags, not to forget that we must continue to chat with the victim so that his consciousness is maintained.

• To overcome the problem of running out of logistics we can survive, survival is the art of survival. We can look for edible plants or fruits.

• And when our friends fall and are no longer able to walk, as much as possible we will inform the basecamp first, if there is no help we can make an emergency stretcher.