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.
Climbing Wall Instructor Assessment
Candidates who have completed the CWI training and the required consolidation can attend this assessment day.
If you feel ready to teach climbing on indoor climbing walls or mobile climbing towers then it's time to get signed off. You will be expected to show all the technical skills and safety considerations required to safely supervise indoor climbers.
Pre-Requisites and Registration
Mountain Training requires that all students are registered with them prior to commencing the course and you will need to have a complete and suitable digital logbook on the MLTE candidate management system.
Syllabus
The areas in which you will be trained and assessed are as follows:
Technical Competence
The Climbing Wall Environment
Supervision
Detailed information on each of the above topics can be found in the Climbing Wall Award Handbook here:
mountain-training.org/qualifications/climbing/qualifications/climbing-wall-instructor
The entrance fees to the climbing walls are not included in the course fee.