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Free tools for mountain athletes.

Free tools for trekkers.

Calculators, planners, and readiness scores. Built for athletes preparing for real mountain objectives. No signup, no paywall, no data stored on our servers.

Calculators and readiness scores. Built for trekkers preparing for a real trek, from a long weekend to Everest Base Camp. No signup, no paywall, no data stored on our servers.

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Summit Check

Pick your peak, choose your tests, get one report. Readiness, skills check, muscular endurance, Zone 2 and summit-day fuel, back to back in a few minutes, with your biggest gap up front.

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Trek Check

Pick your trek, choose your tests, get one report. Readiness for the hardest day and the days in a row, muscular endurance, Zone 2 and a hardest-day fuel plan, back to back in a few minutes, with your biggest gap up front.

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Readiness

Zone 2 Heart Rate Calculator

Get your Zone 2 heart rate range in bpm. Three methods, from a simple age-based estimate to the LTHR-based zones endurance coaches actually use. Zone 2 is the aerobic floor of every mountaineering plan.

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Readiness

Zone 2 Heart Rate Calculator

Get your Zone 2 heart rate range in bpm. Three methods, from a simple age-based estimate to the LTHR-based zones endurance coaches actually use. Zone 2 is the aerobic floor of every trekking plan.

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Readiness

Muscular Endurance Calculator

Score your muscular endurance for your goal peak. Three benchmarks plus your objective return a readiness score from 0 to 100 with the specific gap to close. The local fatigue resistance that decides whether your legs are still working in hour eight.

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Readiness

Muscular Endurance Calculator

Score your muscular endurance for your trek. Three benchmarks plus your trek return a readiness score from 0 to 100 with the specific gap to close. The local fatigue resistance that decides whether your legs still work in hour eight of the hardest day.

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Planning

Peak Progression Planner

Map your peak ladder. Pick your experience, region, and goal peak. Output: a 2 to 4 peak progression with typical training time for each step and links to each peak training plan.

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Vertical conversion

StairMaster Calculator

Convert StairMaster floors and steps to vertical gain in metres and feet. Useful for translating treadmill or stair-machine sessions into the unit mountain training actually cares about.

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Vertical conversion

StairMaster Calculator

Convert StairMaster floors and steps to vertical gain in metres and feet, and compare a session with the ascent of your trek's hardest day. Useful for translating stair-machine sessions into the unit trek training actually cares about.

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Vertical conversion

Treadmill Incline Calculator

Convert treadmill incline percent and distance into vertical gain in metres and feet. For simulating peak-specific terrain when you cannot access real vertical regularly.

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Vertical conversion

Treadmill Incline Calculator

Convert treadmill incline percent and distance into vertical gain in metres and feet. For building the ascent your trek's hardest day asks for when you cannot access real vertical regularly.

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Nutrition

Fuelling Calculator

Work out your carbs, fluid and sodium per hour for a long mountain day, plus what to eat before and after. Enter your weight, duration, intensity and conditions, and get clear per-hour targets so you finish strong instead of crashing the next day.

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Nutrition

Fuelling Calculator

Work out your carbs, fluid and sodium per hour for a long trekking day, plus what to eat before and after. Enter your weight, duration, intensity and conditions, and get clear per-hour targets so you finish strong instead of crashing the next day, which on a trek is another walking day.

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Training

Training plans & guides.

Deeper reads on building the specific capacities each mountain objective demands.

Training

How to Train for Mountaineering

The four physiological demands mountaineering actually tests, and how to train each one instead of running a generic endurance plan with extra hills.

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Training

Mountaineering Plan

How an adaptive mountaineering training plan is structured from base camp to summit, and why it recalibrates every week around what you actually did.

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Training

Alpine Training

The endurance, strength, and technical skills that alpine days demand, and the order to build them in so you arrive ready.

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Training

Climbing & Mountaineering App

What a training app for climbers and mountaineers should actually do, and how Train to Mountain approaches adaptive, peak-specific planning.

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Training

Training plans & guides.

Week-by-week plans for twenty famous treks, and the guides behind them.

Plans

Trek training plans

Week-by-week 16-week plans for twenty famous treks (Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp, Inca Trail, Tour du Mont Blanc, Annapurna Circuit and fifteen more), and how the personalised version differs.

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Guide

Heart rate zones for trekking

How Zone 2 and the zones above it map onto long days on the trail, and how to set them from a field test instead of a formula.

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Guide

Eccentric training for the descent

Why the descent is where trekking legs fail, and the eccentric work that prepares them for 2,827 m of downhill in a day.

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Guide

Altitude acclimatisation

What happens above 2,500 m, how to plan the ascent profile and the rest days, and what you can and cannot train in advance.

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Common questions

Are the Train to Mountain tools free?

Yes. Every tool on this page is free to use, no account or signup required. The tools are built as a service to the mountaineering community and are funded by the Train to Mountain training app, which is a separate product.

Are the Train to Mountain tools free?

Yes. Every tool on this page is free to use, no account or signup required. The tools are built as a service to the trekking and mountaineering community and are funded by the Train to Mountain training app, which is a separate product.

Do I need to create an account to use the tools?

No account is required for any of the tools on this page. Inputs are processed in your browser and not stored on our servers. If you choose to share a calculator output by URL, the parameters appear in the URL hash and are not transmitted.

What does Summit Check measure?

Summit Check runs our free tests for one peak back to back: readiness, skills check, muscular endurance, Zone 2 and summit-day fuel. The readiness test is ten quick questions about your training now; it sizes the runway in weeks and the weekly load your peak asks for. You get one summary with your biggest gap, and the full report by email.

What does Trek Check measure?

Trek Check runs our free tests for one trek back to back: readiness, muscular endurance, Zone 2 and a fuel plan for the hardest day. The readiness test is ten quick questions about your training now; it sizes the runway in weeks and the weekly load your trek asks for, and checks you against the trek's hardest day, its days in a row and its highest night. You get one summary with your biggest gap, and the full report by email.

What does the Peak Progression Planner do?

The Peak Progression Planner takes your current experience level, region preference, and goal peak. It outputs a 2 to 4 peak ladder showing the canonical intermediate objectives that build toward your goal, with the typical training time for each step. Recommendations are drawn from published guidance by alpine clubs and guide associations.

What are the StairMaster and Treadmill Incline calculators for?

Both calculators convert indoor training into vertical gain in metres and feet, which is the unit that matters for mountain training. The StairMaster Calculator converts floors and steps into vertical gain. The Treadmill Incline Calculator converts treadmill incline percent and distance into vertical gain. Useful for athletes who cannot access real vertical terrain regularly.

What are the StairMaster and Treadmill Incline calculators for?

Both calculators convert indoor training into vertical gain in metres and feet, which is the unit that matters for trek training. The StairMaster Calculator converts floors and steps into vertical gain and compares a session with the ascent of your trek's hardest day. The Treadmill Incline Calculator converts treadmill incline percent and distance into vertical gain. Useful for trekkers who cannot access real vertical terrain regularly.

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