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Climbing training courses and schools
Ice, Mountain and Rock Climbing

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Advanced Self-Rescue
Course Format: On-site
This course will teach you how to handle climbing emergencies that happen in remote settings, where assistance from others is unlikely to be available. Instruction will refine your skills for lowering your partner to the bottom of a climb, introduce techniques for raising your partner to the top of a cliff, and present techniques to transport your partner to a road. For climbers venturing to...
 

Introduction To High Angle Rescue
Course Format: On-site
This course is for climbers wishing to become familiar with the basic techniques employed by established technical rescue groups. This two-day course is geared for experienced climbers who anticipate interaction with established rescue groups. Its purpose is to familiarize participants with general rock rescue techniques so that they could, if needed, effectively assist trained rescuers in a...
 

Essentials Of Aid
Course Format: On-site
This course teaches the fundamentals of aid climbing, including specialized equipment, techniques and attitudes needed to become an aid climber. It¡¯s sometimes called ¡°artificial¡± climbing but we promise the experience will be very real! Any time you use your equipment to advance on the rock rather than as a safety measure you are said to be using ¡°aid.¡± Aid, or artificial climbing, is often...
 

Advanced Aid
Course Format: On-site
This course teaches the specialized techniques required to undertake major aid climbs. These techniques form the basis for developing big wall skills. Building on the core aid climbing skills taught in our Essentials Of Aid course, you will learn techniques required to complete more difficult climbs in more committing settings. Although this course does not include an overnight stay on a wal...
 

Big Wall Basics
Course Format: On-site
This course teaches skills for living in the vertical world, on a rock wall. You will learn how to get yourself and your gear up the wall, and how to stay there for more than a day. Many of the world¡¯s greatest adventures are big walls; climbs that take more than a day to complete. By ¡°camping out¡± in the middle of an ascent it is possible to climb for many days without returning to the grou...
 

A Week On the Wall
Course Format: On-site
This course teaches the skills required to undertake major aid climbs and big walls. By combining our Advanced Aid and Big Walls courses we present the specific aid climbing techniques required for major climbs and then put them into practice in an environment where they are essential. If you’re ready for big walls this course is a great way to get started.
 

Top Rope Instructor Training
Course Format: On-site
This course is for qualified climbers who wish to present safe, well-conceived experiences in a top-roped setting. To be a competent climbing instructor you must first have a thorough knowledge of the methods and practices required to keep your students safe. Accordingly, successful completion of our Anchoring Skills Evaluation is a prerequisite for this course. Created for qualified climber...
 

Guiding Skills: Sharing The Mountains
Course Format: On-site
This course teaches specialized guiding skills needed in semi-technical and technical terrain. It is designed to familiarize you with the responsibilities of guiding and some of the techniques available to meet those responsibilities. Sharing the joys of multi-pitch rock climbing can be tremendously fulfilling, but with the sharing comes immense responsibility. A skilled mountain guide must ...
 

Introduction To The Frozen World
Course Format: On-site
This course teaches the basics of ice climbing. It lays the solid foundation essential for building more advanced ice climbing skills. We start this course by introducing you to the tools you will come to trust as an ice climber: ice axes, ice hammers and crampons. A discussion of other equipment items and cold weather dressing follows, and then it’s off to the ice. After a short pre...
 

Ice Climbing Week I
Course Format: On-site
This course combines Introduction To The Frozen World with our Level II course, Frozen Walls & Waterfalls, to create an intensive 5-day intensive introduction to water ice climbing. You will learn the basics of ice climbing as well as essential techniques for climbing far above the ground, in a multi-pitch setting. This course is a combination of Water Ice: An Introduction To The Frozen Worl...
 

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