Imagine you are caught out by a storm high up on a mountain cliff, or you are stuck at the bottom of a sea cliff. How are you going to get out of that situation? Well the Rope Rescue Course for Rock Climbers is the answer. During this course we will cover many of the basic skills you need to know to help you self rescue yourself from many situations when rock climbing.
Of course the situation might not be a small incident, but a minor or worse still a major accident, during the course we will help you to identify these potential hazards and pitfalls and help you to avoid them, as well as give you some skills to get to a casualty quickly and safely to administer immediate first aid.
The course looks at teaching you in a progressive fashion, building up the skills in bite sized chunks until by the end of the course you will have a variety of skills and techniques to help you rescue yourself.
The course content typically includes:
Tying off a belay Plate
Escaping the system
Basic Hoists
Snatch and counter balances rescues
Ascending a rope
Traversing problems
The Rope Rescue for Rock Climbers Course is running on the weekend of the 28th & 29th August and costs £150 per person. This includes instruction and a small selection of specialist equipment. It is expected that the climbers will have there own personal climbing equipment.
For detail contact Mark here. For the mean time here is a short piece on escaping sea cliffs that I wrote for PYB.