This course is also ideal if you are looking to improve your confidence or refresh your personal trad leading skills with the aim of helping you to become an independent climber and for those planning to complete the Rock Climbing Instructor scheme or progress onto multipitch climbing.

Course Content

• Choosing venues using guidebooks, mobile devices and the importance of the climbing partnership.

• Safe and assured movement when leading climbs and optimising natural rests for placing gear.

• Ropes and technical equipment for lead climbing, contents of a lead rack and how to carry it, selection and function of gear.

• Technical skills - Selection and placement of suitable gear to protect leader and second, choosing anchors, effective ropework, attaching to multiple anchors, belaying, holding leader and second falls in a controlled environment.