R 900.00
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The Abseil Skills 101 is aimed at people who expect to be abseiling on a climb or trip, but who are not needing the knowledge of setting up the abseil (IE you are not the leader). This is particularly useful for people embarking on a guided expedition to greater ranges where (supervised) abseiling will be required in places but you want to be prepared rather than learn how to abseil in a snow storm high on a mountain. This course is often combined with the SNOW & ICE SKILLS course.
The course covers:
- Equipment usage and care
- Personal safety at edges
- Descending the rope (Abseiling / Rappelling)
- Ascending the rope (Jumaring)
- Hauling systems and Pick-offs
- Passing knots
- Rope types and uses, and equipment care
- Considerations and equipment for longer and complex abseils
The course does not cover:
- The skills needed to approach and retreat from mountains
- Access to any location where escape is not easily possible from the top and the bottom of the abseil site
- Multiple abseils, or abseils that involve intermediate stances
