WHAT DOES THE

COURSE COVER?

How many times have you been climbing outside and wished you knew how to deal with simple problems that may have appeared?

As a climber, we have chosen to deliberately place ourselves in awkward places and sometimes things develop that we have not control over and then need to find some solutions to our problem! No fancy technical gear is carried on this course or complicated solutions shown, rather we will just use what we carry on our harness and find the simplest and safest method to deal with the problem. Real life situations will be simulated in single and multi pitch environments. The key message from this course is being aware of what could go wrong and how to prevent situations occurring! It will equip you with further knowledge to be more self reliant when climbing.

We will look at the individual skills at the Beacon Climbing wall.

These are the skills and type of scenarios that we will look at:

• Avoiding getting into problems initially.

• Analysing your options when something occurs

• Use of prussics and mechanical devices such as the Ropeman

• Tying off the plate

• Protecting personal abseils

• Lowering under load

• Assisted and unassisted Hoist

• Methods of ascending the rope

• Escaping the system to allow more independence to deal with the situation