Through NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.) we introduce you for the first time and exclusively for the national and international sporting and adventure world of Argentine, a new way of learning and enjoying in the nature. The Multiadventure, devised by the Argentineans Mario “dog” Rodriguez, sporting expert and skydiving international instructor and Gabriel Esquivel, mountaineer and wilderness survival instructor, it consist of a practice of combined outdoors activities that include the Skydiving + wilderness Survival + Orienteering and Land Navigation + Trekking, that will take place in a wild natural environment.
A unique adventure that your will experience during three days living together with a group of persons in the wilderness, learning and enjoying from it.
ACTIVITIES DEVELOPMENT
Classroom
It begins with theoretical subjects to be run in classroom, where the participants will be introduced about general information with regards to the sporting disciplines of skydiving, orienteering and land navigation techniques, trekking and wilderness survival that will be carried out during the outdoor practice. The goal is to provide detailed information by means of visual supports, survival stuffs, orienteering and parachutes, about the activities to be made by air, land and water in the wilderness as well as to explain you the importance it would have in the reality to jump with your parachute from and aircraft declared after an emergency declared, to land back on earth and start surviving by taking advantage from the the nature.
Practice on the ground
To begin this phase, we all will meet first at a flying club located near of the area where the practice will take place. Once there, the participants will be given a briefing about the use of the parachute and the, will aboard an aircraft and will be connected to a skydiving instructor harness (tandem system). After taking off and ascending at an altitude of 3,000 mts. -9,843 feets.- for about 20 minutes of flight, you will jump with your Parachute by means of a free fall within the first 1,500 mts. -4,922 feets.- and a soft descent with open parachute the remaining 1,500 mts. -4.922 feets.- over a marked area on a natural land comprised by terrains of woodland and rivers. The objective is to simulate the abandonment of the airplane in emergency, situation at which you must jump and save yourself.
After landing back on the ground, an instructor will expect to guide you to start carrying out the Survival activities, by applying the essential techniques learned through the theory during three day on a wild and natural land comprised by forest, river and/or lagoons located away from the urban areas. There will also be carried out a woodland crossing during the practice applying basically instrumental, natural, diurnal and nocturnal methods of Orienteering and Land Navigation, using magnetic compass and topographic maps (map reading) where the some Trekking techniques will also be taught aimed for flat plain and forest land.
At the end of the Multiadventure, the participants will be handed over its certificates on the ground to be guided later towards an urban area by means of a final woodland crossing, to invited to enjoy a deserved farewell barbeque (BBQ).
Objetive
That the participants learn how to jump in Parachute simulating they are under an emergency occurred in the air, to land back on a ground located near to a small lagoon and start Surviving in a wild and unknown natural place, depending only from a group of persons to work as a team and from the nature to apply First Aid proceedings, make Signaling (marking the area) in order the may be located from air, land and water by some Search and Rescue (SAR) teams, to build Shelters in the outdoor, find and make Water purification and find Food from wild source. Also, to make Fire with natural elements (primitive) and artificial ones, build Traps, Bows, Arrows and Spears, learn how to be Oriented by means of instruments like the magnetic compass and the topographic map, to be oriented by day and night with natural means, know some ways of moving on the ground, knowing distances and choosing the best way through a diurnal and nocturnal Crossing in the wilderness.
The Multiadventure is to be supported in English, French and Portuguese languages by our professionales instructors.
PRE- COURSE MEETING - Date, schedule and place. Tuesday 5, July at 7 p.m. on Sarmiento 4040 Avenue (Palermo city) – located at one block away from the Buenos Aires city planetarium -Capital Federal- (this meeting is aimed to offer you technical information about the Multiadventure and also, for booking/reservation).
THEORETICAL CLASS – Date, Schedule and place. Friday 15, July from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. (to be run at the same location where the pre-course meeting will take place).
PRACTICAL CLASS – Date, Schedule and place. Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24. It begins on Friday from 9 a.m. and ends on Sunday at 3 p.m.–natural place located in the surrounding of the Lobos lagoon (Buenos Aires province).
Meeting point. Some sites at the Capital Federal and the Buenos Aires province will be designated and confirmed later, places from where will leave right to the Lobos Flying club (Buenos Aires province) to leave our vehicles parked at that place during the time the event takes place.
REQUIREMENTS
- Registered skydivers who wish to participate will jump alone -with its own parachutes- (they will only have to pay a lower fare within the jump price that belongs to the full price of the Multiadventure, in concept of the jump without instructor).
- Those who are not skydivers will jump only in Tandem system with the instructors.
- A competition certificate for registered skydivers is required.
- Approved psychophysical exam by the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Medicine (I.N.M.A.E.) is also required for registered skydivers.
- Medical certificate approved for participants who are not skydivers.
- Experience on over 60 jumps is required for registered skydivers.
- Minimum age of 16 years old is required (under age must provide us with a written authorization signed by their father’s or legal guardians to make the jump in parachute and to carry out the activities on ground and water) –we will provide the authorization-.
- Weight must not be over 90 Kg.
PROGRAMA
SKYDIVING
- Basic introduction on the skydiving and the parachute gear.
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WILDERNESS SURVIVAL ON LAND AND WATER
- Introduction on basic techniques for woodland survival.
- Survival psychology (Leadership and Human Groups).
- Mental Positive Attitude (M.P.A.)
- Phases of the Survival`s Pentagon (First Aid, Signalling, Shelter, Water, Food and Fire).
- Diseño de plan de emergencia (evacuation).
- Basic First Aid to be applied on wild natural areas.
- Signalling (diurnal and nocturnal methods).
- Shelter bulding (for groups and individuals “type A”.
- Aerial shelters.
- Fire ignition with primitivos and artificial elements.
- Obtention of wild food (rule of the edibility).
- Construction of traps.
- Construction of spears, bows and arrows.
- Construction of rafts.
- Canopy and rappel.
- Water crossing.
- Estimation of the terrain and climate.
- Clothing.
- Work team.
- Consideration with the personal equipment of survival.
- Survival knifes (types).
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ORIENTEERING and LAND NAVIGATION
- Constitution and use of a magnetic compass.
- Introduction about topographic maps and maps of satellte image.
- Topo map reading.
- Design of an itinerary on the map and on the terrain.
- Map drawing.
- Techniques of orienteering by instrumentals and natural means.
- Diurnal and Nocturnal orienteering techniques.
- Woodland crossing (diurnal and nocturnal methods).
- General and particular aspects.
- Importance (orienteering).
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WORK WITH ROPES
- Importance and use of knots..
- Construction of artificial and natural bridges.
- Crossing with canopy / rappel.
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TREKKING
- Techniques of Trekking in diverse wild natural areas.
- Specific techniques of walking in jungle of forest land.
- Selection of the terrain.
- Cares.
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CHRONOGRAM
Will be delivered to the participants via e-mail.
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INDIVIDUAL EQUIPMENT TO BE CARRY
- Backpack of 30 or 40 litres.
- Headlamp.
- Cold.
- Knife (the kind of survival if possible) –please, request us some information before buying one of them. We will offer detailed info about that knifes in the pre-course meeting.
- Machete (will be provided by us).
- Poncho (will be provided by us)
- Pocket knife or other similarar.
- One empty plastic bottle of 600 cm3.
- Three emptic plastic bottles of 2 and ¼ litres.
- Water purification tablets/pills.
- Personal First Aid kit (not obligatory – will be provided by us).
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PRICES
$ 1.700 -pesos argentinos- (for Argentineans).
$ 2.700 -pesos argentinos- (for foreigners -run in Spanish language).
U$S 800 -american dollars- (for foreigners - run exclusivelly in English language).
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DISCOUNT FOR GROUPS
We offer you a discount system for groups who wish to attend the Multiadventure, as follow:
For every 3 participants, the third one will obtain a 10 % of discount.
For every 4 participants, the fourth one will obtain a 20 % of discount.
For every 5 participants, the fifth one will obtain a 30 % of discount.
