The Learn to Lead Sport Climbs course will provide you with the skills you need to participate in bolted sport climbing, including an introduction to leading bolt protected climbs. This course is also perfect for you if you are ready to progress to leading sport routes outside, or if you are looking to improve your lead climbing confidence, or refresh your leading skills. This course does not cover the skills required for trad leading.
Prior experience of climbing and belaying indoors or outdoors is required. It is ideal for people who are ready to progress to leading sport routes on rock, improve their lead climbing confidence or refresh their leading skills.
Duration: 2 days
Ratio: 1:3
Minimum Age: 14
Pre-requisite experience: To book on this course you must have done 20 indoor or outdoor climbs and have belayed on at least 20 occasions. You must know all the basics of climbing well and ideally have experience leading or lead-belaying indoors.
Required equipment: Please bring your harness, helmet, rock shoes and belay plate. If you have any other climbing equipment such as slings, carabiners and quickdraws please bring them too.
If you do not have this equipment, it is available to borrow from ClimbOut. Please let us know in the appropriate section in the booking form.