Gateway Course 3
Sport Multi-pitch Climbing
This course covers the essential skills required for outdoor sport multi-pitch climbing.
It is recommended for competent indoor lead climbers or those who are already climbing single pitch routes and are looking to expand their skills and try multi-pitch climbing.
Outcomes
- Equipment for outdoor single and multi-pitch climbing ✅
- Re-threading the rope through the fixed anchors at the top of a single pitch climbs ✅
- leading pitches and setting up anchors at the end of the pitch ✅
- Equalised anchors and direct belays ✅
- Direct belaying from above using reverso and rope management on stances ✅
- How to swap leaders ✅
- Arranging single and multiple abseils ✅
- Lowering loaded reverso ✅
- Using a gri gri on direct belays ✅
Course Prerequisites
- You must be a competent lead climber and belayer
- Ideally some experience of single pitch sport climbing including re-threading anchors
Course Info
- 6 hours over 2 days (3 hours per day)
- £130 per person
- Max 4 participants
Minimum age 14. Under 16s must be accompanied by a participating adult. Under 18s require signed parental consent.
