THE ASM SUMMIT TEAM

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Welcome to the American School of Madrid's

Summit Team Website

Conceived in 2001 during a Grade 6 field trip to the Gredos Centre in Navarredonda de Gredos, the Summit Team has evolved into an elective mountaineering class in the Middle School as well as a loosely connected group of students, parents and teachers who enjoy spending time  outdoors.

In class, students learn the rudiments of rock climbing, orienteering, first aid, mountain ecology and other skills related to traveling and living safely in mountain environments. We also learn about the history of alpinism and some of the famous climbers and explorers who have contributed so much to mountaineering.

Our activities outside of class include hikes in the Guadarrama Mountains and the Parque Regional de la Alta Cuenca del Rio Manzanares -a.k.a La Pedriza.  We look forward to the day when we can contemplate trips farther afield to the Gredos Mountains, or even as far north as the Picos de Europa.

We hope that these pages will stimulate an interest in you and others to enjoy and care for the great outdoors that surround us. 

   At Previous Hikes you will find a chronicle of the most recent hikes we have taken.

   At Student Activities, you will learn about the climbing wall, the zip line and other ways we practice mountaineering skills.

   Here we present the research we have done about famous mountaineers and famous mountains.

   We take pictures, and here we offer you our vision of the mountains that surround us.

   The maps are from Desnivel. The links are for you to enjoy.

  Our events and historic ones, too.