If you like to climb mountains, walls, or cliffs with a rope you should know the skills taught in this two day course. It focuses on self rescue in the multi-pitch environment. The course emphasizes reducing the risks in the first place, teaching new, clever systems and tricks to stay safe and reduce the chance of ever having to use the rescue skills you will learn on the course. Never the less rocks fall and so do people. That is why you must take this course.

We have distilled the information taught on previous courses, and looked in to more realistic situations for self rescue. We will teach you the best, most efficient systems and won't overwhelm you with over complicated useless systems. All these skills are useful in everyday climbing and its amazing how much speed and efficiency is gained from having these skills dialed. Self rescue is a topic that all climbers should be skilled in for themselves and the people they climb with.

If you have questions please email us:

guides@elpoterochico.com.mx

Know these skills? Click here for next course: Bigwall and Aid Climbing

Skills covered:

	Problem avoidance, keeping safe in the first place
	Simple load transfers. When to use them and how avoid them.
	Second rescues, (raises, lowers, counter balanced rappels, tandem rappels, multi-pitch rappel dead weight transfers ).
	Simple raising systems, detailed look at the physics behind raising systems, mechanical advantage raises and assisted raises (2:1, 2:1 assisted, 3:1, 3:1 assisted), and the more advanced (5:1, 6:1, and 7:1)
	Leader rescue: Ascending a fixed and counterbalanced rope to rescue a leader Establishing a new anchor and descending. Brief first aid training (knowing when to lower and when to ascend) Real life terrain assessment
	Using self locking plaquete devices(Petzl Reverso, B52, ATC Guide, etc)

Course Prerequisites:

Applicants must have taken our Intermediate Level Single Pitch Rescue Course or can top rope 5.9 climbs, rappel un prompted and have experience placing artificial gear and building anchors. Applicants must demonstrate safe climbing and descending.

Prices

Climbing School Home Page

Guided Ascents Page