Accelerated Trad-Leader Instructional Course
VER-I-101
R 2,990.00
Duration: Saturday & Sunday + a Friday evening
Are you a sport-climber wanting to explore the world of Trad Climbing? Are you already Trad Climbing and wanting to up your skills?
This course is a high intensity offering designed for climber’s already competently leading sport or basic trad. In essence the course takes the 4 days of MDT Multi Pitch Leader syllabus and compresses them into 1 evening of theory and 2 practical days where leading, building stances and gear placement skills are exhaustively tested. We also focus on self-rescue techniques as well as safe retreat / abseiling methodologies.
This course is ideal for:
- Climbers already leading Sport Climbs (min grade 19)
- Seasoned trad leaders who want to push themselves on the technical best practices.
Course material includes
- Gear Placement (and testing)
- Advanced Rope Work
- Theory
- Fall Factors
- Equalizing Angles
- Knots
- Anchor Building
- Equalizing Anchors
- Escaping the System
- Self Rescue and Hauling
- Safe Abseiling
- Leading
