Rock Climbing Instructor Training

If you’re only a little short, and are planning on gaining some more experience prior to the training we will be happy to take a booking if you can outline a plan to have the required experience by the start of the course.

Mountain Training set their prerequisites for good reason, having a good base of experience and understanding on which to build the knowledge and skills is vital. Research has shown that candidates who arrive at Training courses with less than the minimum prerequisites are more likely to defer or fail assessment than other candidates.

If you’d like some more input and coaching in your personal rock climbing to work toward the prerequisites consider booking some private coaching then please get in touch.

You must be registered with Mountain Training for the Rock Climbing Instructor scheme.

• Firstly you’ll need to Register an Account with Mountain Training (if you haven’t already done so) and then Log In to your account.
• In the top left corner click on Register to register for the individual schemes.
• Click on Scheme and select Rock Climbing Instructor.
• Select Board – essentially it doesn’t matter which board but being based in Wales I’d pick Wales (Mountain Training Cymru) as they’re who we’re a registered provider.
• Purchase Membership or Link Existing Membership, to the British Mountaineering Council, Mountaineering Scotland, or Mountaineering Ireland.
• Then Pay for the registration. Currently £65 (Jan 2024).

Mountain Training specify that candidates must be at least 18 years old to register for this award.

As a suggestion if you’re not quite that age and looking to work in the outdoors and gain a qualification, the Climbing Wall Instructor registration age is 17 years.

We have years of experience working in the outdoors, training and assessing instructors, and developing trainees at outdoor centres. If you’d like some direction and development towards an outdoor career please get in touch.

The geography of Snowdonia means that although the mountains themselves can attract their fair share of rain; we have a range of crags outside the national park with unique & differing micro climates. Often, travelling up to 30 minutes North or South can mean climbing in a t-shirt vs getting a good soaking!

As part of the syllabus we must spend at least 8 hours in a climbing wall, which we’ll do on the worst weather day. We have 2 great local climbing walls close by, the Beacon Climbing Centre and the Indy Climbing Wall.

We’ll use our specialist local knowledge and years of experience to pick the best place to climb and stay as dry as possible. We’re fortunate to have our own indoor space to run presentations and theory sessions from; allowing us greater flexibility to move evening sessions to earlier in the day and head outside on an improving forecast. Dealing with inclement weather is a big part of being a climbing instructor here in the UK and we’ll definitely discusss this as part of the training course!