Awarding Body

Mountain Training

Scheme

Climbing Wall Instructor

Course

Assessment

Type

Assessment

Award Description

This qualification trains and assesses candidates in the skills required to supervise climbers on purpose built artificial climbing walls and boulders. The scheme does not include the skills and techniques required to teach lead climbing.

The Climbing Wall Instructor qualification trains and assesses candidates in the skills required to supervise climbers on purpose built artificial climbing walls and boulders. It is ideal for people who work at climbing walls or at venues with permanent or mobile climbing towers.

Before you attend a Climbing Wall Instructor assessment, make sure you have done the following:

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• You must have attended a Climbing Wall Instructor (or Climbing Wall Award) training course or have been granted exemption from training.
• You must be familiar with the syllabus.
• You must have logged a minimum of 30 personal climbing visits to at least three different climbing walls.
• You must have led a minimum of 40 climbs on climbing walls.
• You must be confident at leading routes at Fr 4.
• You must have assisted in the supervision of at least 15 instructed sessions on at least two different walls including a large public facility in a variety of contexts. At least five of these sessions must have personal reflective comments recorded on DLOG. (For guidance see question 3 in the DLOG section on this page.)
• You must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least one full day or eight hours of instruction and included an element of assessment.

The Climbing Wall Instructor assessment is a minimum of 6 hours.

Start

25/06/2022 10:00

End

25/06/2022 17:00

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

4

Bookings

3

Venue

EICA Ratho

Town

Edinburgh

County

Edinburgh

Postcode

EH28 8AA

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

55.92312

Longitude

-3.39764

Name

Nic Crawshaw

Phone

0131 333 6333

Website

Booking/Details

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