no condition required.

up to 400 m altitude difference 
or walking times up to 3 h. 

You only walk on fixed paths, paths or fixed climbing facilities that can be mastered by any average mountain hiker without any special prior knowledge.
On trekking tours, in exceptional cases, also with flat glacier passages with few crevasses.

up to 800 m altitude difference 
or walking times up to 6 h.

You move mainly on fixed paths and climbing facilities, occasional pathless passages and exposed ones
Climbs ensure surefootedness
and a head for heights ahead. Summit ascents in places with block terrain in the 1st degree. In some exceptions, there are flat glaciers, which, depending on the conditions, can be climbed with ropes or lightweight crampons for safety reasons.

 up to 1200 m altitude difference 
or walking times up to 9 h.

You climb glacier-free and glaciated peaks over stepped, partly exposed (steep sloping terrain) rock and firn ridges,
which partly also easy alpine climbing in the I. and
II degree and walking with crampons up to 35 degrees.

up to 1600 m altitude difference 
or walking times up to 12 h.

Difficult ascents to mostly glaciated peaks await you over partly steep flanks and ridges up to 45 degrees, which require a secure command of crampon technique and alpine climbing in II. and
III. require degrees.

up to 2000 m altitude difference 
or walking times up to 12 h.

You are dealing with difficult ascents over flanks and ridges, which require the safe mastery of crampon techniques (vertical and frontal) over 45 degrees as well as alpine climbing in the III. degree and more severe.