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overseas insurance that covers climbing 4-Jul-2007 At 2:06:01 PM ampedandwired

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I've just bought some insurance for an upcoming 3 month trip to Thailand and South Africa. I got it from insure4less. Their standard policy doesn't cover climbing, however I emailed them describing what I was planning on doing and they extended the policy to cover this for an extra 25% on the premium and an increase (to $500) in the medical excess for climbing related injuries. They have three levels of cover, I took the "Excel Plus" level because of the search/rescue cover and the higher theft cover. Total cost was around $330.

The other option I found was the "Patriot Extreme" policy, which is available through a number of brokers, internationalinsurance for example. This policy also costs around AUD330 and covers "extreme" sports out of the box (to 4500m), but only covers medical and has a policy limit of USD50,000. I couldn't find any Australian brokers for this one either.

Anyway, hope this helps someone.