Climbers Self Rescue skills

For climbers who want to develop their skills and want that peace of mind when climbing multipitch routes. Think of it as a bit like a first aid course! Learning the basic self rescue skills is invaluable to keep you and your partner safe! You will learn how to avoid problems in the first place, as well as tools that you can use in different scenarios to self rescue you and your partner off a route.

These skills will help you solve some of the less serious problems you may encounter, but they provide the foundation for more advanced, serious rescues.​

The skills learnt on this course can help resolve the following example problems:

• Assisting a climbing partner past the crux move if they can't do the moves

• Lowering a climber safely and in control - they may have dropped some gear on a ledge or need lowering back to the belay ledge/ground

• Dealing with a stuck rope whilst abseiling - are both ends in reach? Can you ascend the rope back to the anchor?

• You've abseiled to the wrong ledge on a sea cliff and the climbing is too hard to climb back out

• Abseiling and/or lowering on a damaged rope

WHO'S IT FOR?​

• This self rescue for climbers course is aimed at those who have lead climbing experience on single pitch and multipitch crags

• You possibly want to progress to climbing on sea cliffs and/or mountain crags and want to equip yourself with skills for those unforeseen circumstances

• You may want to learn the skills to safely take less experienced friends out on multipitch routes

• You're planning on climbing some of the more remote multipitch climbs, such as Am Buchaille or routes on Ben Nevis and want to be able to handle emergency situations

• You have possibly had a near miss or witnessed an accident/problem at the crag and wished you could have helped/resolved the situation better