Rock climbing

Advanced courses & rock challenges

Check out our performance climbing course if you have been climbing for a while and want help to move on to the next level.  We will use the most up to date coaching methods to get you cranking like McClure and learning how to stay injury free at the higher grades.

Meanwhile, for climbers who have either been there and done that (but want to do it again!) – or want to go there and do that – this is also the page for you.  We have handpicked some of the best challenges in the British Isles to tempt you from your armchairs for the adventure of a lifetime. 

These courses are specialist choices for experienced clients so we tend to run them by arrangement.  If you fancy sharing an adventure just get in touch – we love taking people on these trips although no-one has ever booked us for the month long hard rock challenge yet! (see below).  If you don’t see the adventure you dreamed about listed here please get in touch and we will plan an itinerary to suit you. 

Performance Climbing

A chance to really push yourself in a safe controlled environment at any location you want.  Leading, seconding, bouldering, multi-pitch, single pitch, mountain crag, sea cliff or even sea stack (see the stack info below).  Get in touch and we’ll organise a trip that really works for you!

• Ratio 1:2
• Cost per day £150 for 1 person
• £170 for 2 people
• Non-residential

Duration and dates to suit you – please get in touch to discuss your requirements

Hard Rock Mega Challenge

Same level of quality but harder!  Again a Wilson classic volume published in 1974, Hard rock includes some fantastic adventures from VS upwards.  What about trying some hard rock ticks such as Cenotaph Corner (E1 Llanberis Pass), Engineers Slabs (VS, Great Gable), Kipling Groove (HVS, Gimmer Crag) or Right Unconquerable (HVS, Stanage).  Suitable for climbers with a solid background in harder rock climbing.  Call us. We love a hard rock challenge.

• Ratio 1:2
• Cost per day £150 for 1 person
• £170 for 2 people (or book us for a month and we’ll try and tick them all!)|
• Non-residential

Duration and dates to suit you – please get in touch to discuss your requirements

Mountain Enchainments

Okay, so we pinched the name from our Gaelic neighbours, but this approach is a whole lot of fun.  We find a selection of routes fairly close together and work our way up each getting higher each time.  What’s more, we can usually find a link up of any grade giving a great day out. How about Main Wall (HS) on Cyrn Las, then up to The Gambit Climb (VD) on Clogwyn Y Ddysgl and across to Pigott’s Climb (VS) on Cloggy before returning via Snowdon Summit.  Alternatively, one of the classic enchainments in Ogwen such as Tennis Shoe (HS) to Piton Route (VS) to Continuation Crack (HVS) on Idwal Slabs then across to Grey Arete (HVS) on Glyder Fawr Upper Cliff and back via the summit of Glyder Fawr. Nectar!  Of course, we can do something similar in the Peak District but it’s more climbs on smaller crags and no summit – still great fun though!

• Ratio 1:2
• Cost per day £150 for 1 person
• £170 for 2 people
• Non-residential

Duration and dates to suit you – please get in touch to discuss your requirements

Scottish Sea Stacks

Fancy a stack attack? Easy - Britain is littered with thousands of them.  Seemingly named after the old Viking word ‘stac’ which means a ‘conical hill’, these isolated pinnacles of rock, often surrounded by sea at high tide, offer unique challenges to climbers.  For this challenge we travel to Scotland - home to the ultra classic trilogy of The Old Man of Hoy (E1), The Old Man of Stoer (VS) and Am Buachaille (HVS).

This is not a trip for the faint hearted.  Each stack has its own logistical challenges and we need a full week to allow travel time and time to wait out poor weather.  But the best things in life don’t come easily do they!  For inspiration read Chris Mellor’s brilliant stack climbing guide (pdf file) – then give us a ring!

• Duration 1 week
• Ratio 1:2
• Cost per day £130 for 1 person
• £150 for 2 people (and travel expenses)
• Non-residential

Dates by arrangement (late May/early June would be ideal)

There are so many aspects to the sport.  It never gets boring because when I feel like it I can always do something different - I see my world through climbing.

Wolfgang Gullich