Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment

Experience Required

You must be at least 18 years old and have completed your action plan from training in your consolidation period. Before you attend a Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment, you must;

• Have attended a Rock Climbing Instructor (or Single Pitch Award) training course or been granted exemption from training be familiar with the syllabus
• Be competently leading Severe grade climbs on outdoor crags with leader-placed protection.
• Have led (and logged) a minimum of 40 graded rock climbs with traditional protection at a variety of venues (of which at least 20 MUST be at Severe grade or above)
• Be proficient in the use of climbing walls and have a minimum of 30 climbing wall leads graded at F4 or above
• Be proficient in outdoor bolt protected sport climbing and have a minimum of 10 sport climb leads graded at F4 or above
• Have assisted in the supervision of 20 instructed sessions post training.
• These sessions should be at a variety of different venues with 10 being on indoor climbing walls and the other 10 on outdoor crags.
• A session is a half day or evening. At least five of these sessions must have personal reflective comments recorded on DLOG.
• You must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least two full days or sixteen hours of instruction and included an element of assessment.