Summer Course 1/2026
High-altitude mountaineering course on rock and ice, including a focus on mountain and air rescue medicine
Sun, June 14, 8:00 AM – Sat, June 20, 2026, 5:00 PM
Franz-Senn Hut (2,147 m), Neustift im Stubaital
The International Courses in Alpine Medicine (DIMM) are held in cooperation with the Alpinärzteschmiede. Registration for the course takes place via the Alpinärzteschmiede website.
Summer Course 1
Information & Programme
Detailed programme to follow!
Price: €1,840 excl. accommodation, lift and luggage transport
Alpine medicine seminars
Provision of specialist knowledge by subject-specific expert speakers.
- Alpinistic fitness criteria from an internal medicine perspective – mountaineering with internal medical pre-existing conditions (2 hours)
- The tour first-aid kit for the mountaineer and the mountaineering physician (1 hour)
- Risk management and accident prevention in mountaineering in summer (2 hours)
- Alpine traumatology, Part 2 (2 hours)
- Psychology of mountaineering (2 hours)
- Requirements for the mountain rescue/mountain patrol physician (2 hours)
- Alpine emergency medicine, terrestrial mountain rescue medicine, lightning injuries (2 hours)
- Internal medicine emergencies in the mountains (1 hour)
- Possibilities and limitations of air rescue in the mountains (1 hour)
- Medical air rescue missions; requirements for the alpine air rescue physician (2 hours)
Practical exercises in alpine medicine
- Medical first aid at the accident site
- Crevasse fall, hanging on the rope, loose pulley
- Terrestrial mountain rescue and evacuation techniques
Mountaineering training
Improving knowledge and skills for easy to moderately difficult mountaineering on rock and ice, with the aim that suitably qualified participants may be able to complete an ascent of medium length (approx. 300 m of elevation gain) up to grade IV in an independent rope team.
Summer Course 1
Course management
Mag. phil. Reinhard Pühringer, PhD
Profile
- Sports scientist (PhD)
- State-certified mountain and ski guide
- Ski and cross-country ski instructor
- State-certified coach
- Travel agency business owner
- Professional photographer
- Organic farmer
Publications
Age-Dependent Health Status and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Austrian Military Mountain Guides
Reinhard Puehringer 1 2 , Martin Berger 3 , Michael Said 3 , Martin Burtscher 1 2
Affiliations expand
PMID: 32757956 DOI: 10.1089/ham.2020.0092
Association Between Ferritin Levels and Altitude-Dependent Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Mountain Guides.
Pühringer R, Muckenthaler M, Burtscher M.
High Alt Med Biol. 2023 Jun;24(2):139-143. doi: 10.1089/ham.2023.0016. Epub 2023 May 3.
PMID: 37134197
Does Moderate Altitude Affect VO2max in Acclimatized Mountain Guides?
Pühringer R, Gatterer H, Berger M, Said M, Faulhaber M, Burtscher M.
High Alt Med Biol. 2022 Mar;23(1):37-42. doi: 10.1089/ham.2021.0081. Epub 2021 Dec 20.
PMID: 34939827
Prim. PD Dr. Peter Paal, MBA, PM.ME, EDAIC, EDIC, ESRA-DRA, FERC
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy Salzburg
Kajetanerplatz 1
A-5010 Salzburg
Profile
- Specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine
- President, Austrian Board for Alpine Safety
- Scientific Director, ICAR MEDCOM
- UIAA MEDCOM
- BRD in the AVS
Alpine medicine focus areas and research
- Accidental hypothermia and avalanche
- Alpine emergency medicine
- Accident research and prevention
- Extreme environments