The Technical Rope Skills Course develops your rope and rescue skills to grow your confidence rock climbing and in the mountains. The topics covered will increase your speed and efficiency on your own alpine rock, multi-pitch, and mountaineering objectives and provide self-sufficiency to problem solve and handle any emergency rescue situations that may arise.

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Technical Rope Skills Syllabus

Familiarity with ropework is important for all areas of mountaineering. From simple pitching and abseiling to safeguard short sections of a route, for travelling over glaciers, or for emergency rescue use. Mountaineers should first be familiar with the fundamental building blocks and tools before then expanding their skills in more complex situations. General rules of keeping it simple and neat apply to all stages.

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Syllabus includes:

• Equipment selection.
• Multi-pitch skills including tactics for climbing in a pair or three.
• Anchor configurations, belaying, stance management, and techniques for protecting the anchor for multi-pitch climbing.
• Descent and abseiling systems.
• Ropework for scrambling and ridge traverses including shortening the rope, simulanteous climbing, security and speed considerations.
• Big wall techniques including rigging and ascending fixed lines, equipment and hauling.
• Vertical upwards and downwards rescue including, escaping the system, load transfers, lowering, raising
• Abseiling techniques with an injured patient.
• Glacier travel, crevasse self and companion rescue hauling systems.

Shortened private courses can be tailored to individual goals.

Prerequisites

Details and Pricing

Duration: 3 days

Maximum ratio 1:4

2025/26 Dates:

Can’t make these dates? Get in touch to arrange private dates or shorter bespoke instruction throughout the year.

2025/26 Price:

Group Price: $890 per person Private rates: $1490 / $1190 per person for 2 / 3 people. Includes: GST, guide fees, compliance costs, technical equipment, and transport from Wānaka. Excludes: Lunch and snacks, rock shoe hire (if required), accommodation in Wanaka.

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