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Travel Insurance 12-Dec-2008 At 9:19:14 AM martin saint

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On 12/12/2008 Wendy wrote:
>Austrian Alpine Club UK branch accepts members from all english speaking
>countries. 41 pounds for the year (jan-jan) full mountain rescue, medical,
>repatriation etc, the whole year covered, including any number of trips
>up to 6 weeks long (each) outside of home country. for trips over 6 weeks
>you can extend cover through the insurer (a kind of bizzarre process especially
>when you don't speak german, but it worked) for 1 euro 50 p/d. They cover
>any sort of mountain rescue, I had a friend claim a snowboarding accident
>on it.
>
>HIH (think they are danish) also offer a travel medical policy that covers
>climbing - it's more expensive than AAC but covers general medical as well,
>but not general travel stuff like lost baggage.

I can vouch for the Austrian Alpine Club insurance. I went ski mountaineering earlier this year and ended up being evacuated by helicopter from an alpine hut to a Swiss hospital with reasonably serious altitude problems (despite a week of climbing high and sleeping low.) I filled in the form, sent it to the insurer, they paid the 7000 euro bill no questions asked. I was thoroughly impressed.