Travel Insurance for trekking to 5800m

someanonbloke

Hi, can anyone recommend travel insurance for trekking to up to 5800m?

JosephK

Try British Mountaineering Council - thebmc.co.uk/insurance - or just google "travel insurance trekking above 5,000m" and you'll get a list of possible insurers.

Have fun up them there hills:j

agrinnall

Do you need anything special for that height? It's high but not that high, as you imply, it's possible to trek to that height. I'd have thought that perhaps 6,000m might be a cut off point, I'm not sure whether there's any straightforward trekking that goes that high. I went to 5,400m and didn't have special cover, although it was a good few years ago and the market may have changed in that time.

AstroTurtle

agrinnall wrote: »

Do you need anything special for that height? It's high but not that high, as you imply, it's possible to trek to that height. I'd have thought that perhaps 6,000m might be a cut off point, I'm not sure whether there's any straightforward trekking that goes that high. I went to 5,400m and didn't have special cover, although it was a good few years ago and the market may have changed in that time.

Probably depends where you are trekking to be honest.

Everest base camp is under 6,000 metres and im sure you'd want cover in you got in a tricky spot there!

agrinnall

AstroTurtle wrote: »

Probably depends where you are trekking to be honest.

Everest base camp is under 6,000 metres and im sure you'd want cover in you got in a tricky spot there!

I agree you'd want cover, I'm just not sure that anything more than a normal "including trekking" policy would be required.

JosephK

Given altitudes mentioned, I'd guess it's somewhere like Himalaya or Andes which can be remote enough to require helicopter evacuation if there is any problem which could range from altitude sickness to simply falling on broken ground.

Hopefully you won't have a problem, most people don't, but you do need to ensure your insurance terms cover intended activities and chances are bog-standard travel insurance won't.