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Travel insurance for climbing overseas 21-Nov-2014 At 3:32:07 AM pei

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Oh no... I just specifically bought insure4less with the intention to apply for an additional climbing premium - does this mean they're not insuring for climbing in Canada/USA anymore? I'm still waiting to hear back from them at the moment, I guess we'll see.

Other options:

Join the Austrian Alpine club UK section - members get up to EUR 25,000 in rescue costs; they will repatriate you (to wherever you live) from abroad without limitation on cost and up to EUR 10,000 for medical treatment abroad. This will cover you for trips up to 8 weeks - trips beyond that time, you can email them and get a quote for how much it'll be (from what I remember it was quite pricey for additional time). Covers up to 6000m, climbing, mountaineering, ski touring, whitewater. You'll still probably need to buy other travel insurance to supplement this
http://aacuk.org.uk/p-faqs-insurance

If you're going to be climbing in Canada, join the Alpine Club of Canada - they act as a broker for Travel Underwriters, which offers climbing insurance to visitors of Canada. Seems quite pricy too though when I put in a few dates for quotes.
http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/acc-trip-insurance/
https://www.travelunderwriters.com/consumerexpress-app/VerifyPartner.b2c?pc=ALP000

I haven't come across any other Australian companies besides insure4less that will cover climbing. Anyone else got any ideas?