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Mountain Training 
Rock Skills Introduction Courses 

The mountain training Rock Skills Introduction course is a highly practical one day course where you will learn the essential safety skills to start your rock climbing journey. This course is perfect for those with little to no experience and is designed to give candidates the confidence and competence to pass a belay test at any uk climbing centre.

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A Rock Skills Introduction course is ideal for beginner climbers; those who have never climbed on rock and those with limited experience of climbing indoors.

Minimum age: 12
Course length: 1 day.
Climbing experience required: none.

All candidates will be emailed a pre-course information pack and be registered on the Mountain Training Association Candidate Management system (CMS) by Up & Under Adventures, as well as a 15% discount with Cotswolds Outdoors and Snow + Rock.

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For further information regarding this skills courses and others available through Mountain Training, please visit their website at: 

 

https://www.mountain-training.org/personal-skills/rock-skills/introduction

The course syllabus looks at various aspects of rock climbing including:

  • Guidebooks and Apps

  • Low level climbing/bouldering/traversing

  • Appropriate equipment (Helmets, Harnesses, belay devices, rock shoes)

  • Knot tying

  • Belaying with a variety of belay devices including friction plates and assisted braking devices

  • Lowering and holding a fall

  • Abseiling

  • Identifying and managing risk

  • Emergency procedures.

 

As well as environment aspects like:

  • Access

  • SSSI designations and what they mean to access (local flora and fauna)

  • Respect the Rock

  • leave no Trace

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Mountain Training Rock Skills Introduction courses by Up & Under Adventures
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