Abstract

This study aimed to explore learning styles of the professional mountaineers. The research was carried out according to the survey model. The research group composed of 61 professional mountaineers (n_(men)=45, n_(women)=16) who attended Advanced Snow Ice Education Camp in Rize on September 1-7, 2012, the last camp of Mountaineering (Alpinism) Winter Education within Turkish Mountaineering Federation’s activity program for 2012. As a data collection instrument, this study employed `Kolb Learning Style Inventory` developed by Kolb (1985) and adapted to Turkish by AÅŸkar and Akkoyunlu (1993). Percentages and frequencies were used for analysis of data. As a result of the research, it was determined that professional mountaineers had following learning styles: 57.4% assimilating (35), 24.6% converging (15), 14.8% diverging (9), 3.3% accommodating (2).

Key words: Sports, mountaineering, learning styles.