Foundation and assessment
Your instructor assesses your current level and sets the progression. Beginners cover equipment, balance, snow plough, stopping and first turns.
Ten days to take your skiing from confident to professional. Advanced technique, ungroomed snow, powder, moguls, and the ability to ski varied Gulmarg terrain. Built for experienced skiers and anyone considering a career in ski instruction.
This course is for experienced skiers who want to push beyond intermediate, and for anyone considering ski instruction as a career. If you can already ski intermediate slopes comfortably — turning, stopping and using the lift — the course takes you into ungroomed snow, powder, moguls, steeper gradients, and the skills needed to ski confidently in varied conditions.
Here is exactly what happens on this course, day by day. Your instructor adjusts the pace to you.
Your instructor assesses your current level and sets the progression. Beginners cover equipment, balance, snow plough, stopping and first turns.
Build balance, speed control, side slipping and linked turns, with the pace adjusted to your existing ability.
Long and short turns, lift use, and the control needed for consistent intermediate-slope runs.
Longer runs, building speed and confidence, with focus on body position, edge work and timing.
Strengthen intermediate technique and prepare for steeper terrain with more precise edge control.
Parallel turns, carving, steeper terrain and reading slopes with real control.
Develop clean technique on varied intermediate terrain before entering more demanding snow conditions.
Learn how technique changes on ungroomed terrain: wider stance, back-ski weighting, wider turns and reading the surface instead of relying on a groomed track.
Work on mogul control, short-radius turns at speed and the quick decision-making advanced skiing requires.
Put everything together on varied terrain and snow conditions. Finish with a course review, assessment of strengths and areas to develop, and your completion certificate.
You receive a course completion certificate at the end of your course.
All ski equipment is provided. You only need to bring:
We can arrange accommodation, meals and transport at any budget. Tell us what you need and we will send one combined cost.
If 10 days is more than you need, here are the other options.
A full week on the mountain. Enough time to move from your first day on snow to parallel turns on intermediate slopes — or, if you already ski, to sharpen your technique until it feels natural.
View courseChoose a Budget, Gold or Platinum 6-night package with lessons, stay and package inclusions.
View packagesNo. The course starts from your current level and builds to advanced terrain. Beginners cover the shorter-course foundations first; experienced skiers move through those stages more quickly.
The course builds professional-level skills and includes an Adventure Packers completion certificate. It is not a formal instructor certification; tell us if certification is your aim so your instructor can focus the advanced days on the relevant skills.
Yes, if you want to make a meaningful jump in ability. Ten days provides time to build muscle memory and confidence beyond a short holiday lesson.
Yes. Ten days is physically demanding. Your instructor can suggest rest days and adjust the schedule around how your body is responding.
Ungroomed snow, steeper intermediate slopes and higher terrain accessed via the gondola, selected by your instructor according to conditions and ability. You are not sent to difficult terrain alone.
Tell us your dates and how many people are coming. We will confirm instructor availability and send you a full cost, including any accommodation or transport you need.
