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Winter Lead Climbing

Course Overview

You will usually be in a group of no more than two with one instructor. Meeting your instructor on the first morning provides an opportunity to discuss everyone’s experience and aspirations enabling the instructor to plan the programme based around these. The main topics to be covered are:

• Recap of core winter skills, such as using ice axe and crampons, for approaching climbs
• Basic rope work (tying into multi point anchors) and belaying both leader and second
• Use of technical ice tools and crampons on a variety of mediums (rock, ice, snow, turf)
• Coaching to develop personal climbing technique on ice and mixed ground
• Escaping from winter multi pitch climbs (including abseiling from a variety of anchors)
• Developing winter lead climbing strategies
• Avalanche awareness and its implications for safe route choice
• Winter navigation
• Evening sessions may include an avalanche awareness talk and a general interest talk.

The programme is fairly flexible taking into account individual needs and aims, weather, etc.

Duration & Cost

5 Days at £795.00

Dates

none set

Pre-requisites

Pre-requisites: Regular multi-pitch rock climbing essential. Winter hill walking essential.

Course Notes & Equipment List

Click here for more details on the course and for a full equipment list. If you have any equipment missing our retail partner Ellis Brigham have a store in Aviemore.

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