Abseiling Skills 101

The Abseil Skills 101 is aimed at people who expect to be abseiling on a climb or trip, but who are not needing the knowledge of setting up the abseil (IE you are not the leader). This is particularly useful for people embarking on a guided expedition to greater ranges where (supervised) abseiling will be required in places but you want to be prepared rather than learn how to abseil in a snow storm high on a mountain. This course is often combined with the SNOW & ICE SKILLS course.

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The course covers:

• Equipment usage and care
• Personal safety at edges
• Descending the rope (Abseiling / Rappelling)
• Ascending the rope (Jumaring)
• Hauling systems and Pick-offs
• Passing knots
• Rope types and uses, and equipment care
• Considerations and equipment for longer and complex abseils

The course does not cover:

• The skills needed to approach and retreat from mountains
• Access to any location where escape is not easily possible from the top and the bottom of the abseil site
• Multiple abseils, or abseils that involve intermediate stances