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Advanced Rescue Skills

This advanced course expands on the essential skills covered already, tackling some more advanced topics that will hopefully be seldom used, but are carefully designed to get you safely out of some of the most complicated situations. We will take turns acting as the “casualty” and the rescuer, inventing and responding to some really far-out situations competently and efficiently.

Rope skills that would make Andy Kirkpatrick proud

Do you enjoy getting way out of your comfort zone? Have you covered all of the essential rescue skills already? Do you find yourself in situations where you think “I really don’t want to have an epic here”? This advanced course expands on the essential skills covered already, tackling some more advanced topics that will hopefully be seldom used, but are carefully designed to get you safely out of some of the most complicated situations. We will take turns acting as the “casualty” and the rescuer, inventing and responding to some really far-out situations competently and efficiently.

Next Course Date

Advanced Rescue Skills
4 spots left

$520.00
Sat, 24 Oct, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 25 Oct, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Geboor/Camel's Hump, Mt Macedon
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Whack your details here and we’ll coordinate together to choose dates that suit you.

Coordinate with other participants, share ideas, and plan together. Join our discussion group to stay connected throughout.

What will we learn?

Among the skills you will learn are:

  • Assisted Abseils (getting an unconscious person to the ground)
  • Lowering past a knot (getting a conscious casualty to the ground from a multi-pitch climb)
  • Z-drags without an auto-block belay device
  • Rescuing an unconscious person from a lead climb

Prerequisites

The participants start this session with knowledge of indoor “lead” climbing, and will have a lead-pass from any indoor climbing gym.

Location

This course is held on an outdoor location on real trad climbing routes. The area we climb at and the grade of the routes will be tailored to the group participant’s skill levels.

Duration

12 hours contact time split over two sessions.

What do we need to own/bring?

The only piece of equipment you need to own before this course is a standard climbing harness suitable for lead-climbing indoors. All other climbing safety equipment is provided by Melbourne Climbing School, however if you own any of the following equipment please bring it along with you – learning with your own equipment is far better and will provide a great start to your outdoor climbing experience!

  • Helmet *
  • One locking biner suitable for belaying
  • One belay device
  • If you own a chalk bag, rope, quickdraws, slings and any other sport- or trad-climbing equipment please let us know prior to the course, and we can plan to teach you using your own gear instead.
    * Helmets are worn on all outdoor Melbourne Climbing School courses – but as with all of the other climbing safety equipment, we have these if you don’t own one, and we will not charge any extra for their use on the course.
    Closed footwear such as tennis shoes are fine for learning on if you do not own climbing shoes.
    Non-climbing gear: You will need to bring suitable clothing and footwear for light hiking, and your own lunch and water for the day (and a camera!).
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Gregory Corvus 5 months ago
Our group spent the weekend with Aaron learning Anchoring, abseiling, and top roping skills. His teaching methods were very clear and understandable. He was calm, professional, and reassuring, which is what I personally needed due to my fears of risk and heights. By the end of the course I was able to confidently place an anchoring system that I was confident in and took away the skills that would allow me to do it outside of the class environment.
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Cameron Scates 1 year ago
Had Aaron teach me and three others over two days. Very informative and answers any questions you have with climbing with confidence. Over all great person and teacher
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Mert Korkusuz 4 hours ago
Great climbing and alpine courses!
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Daniel Broadbridge 1 day ago
I booked the Alpine Course 1. It was quite a large group that was then divided into 2 smaller groups, which I really appreciated as it meant that my course instructor Darcy was able to provide more personalised feedback. We were taught the basic skills required to move safely in the mountains in winter. I would highly recommend the course! Darcy was great and I learnt lots
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James Ryper 6 days ago
Very educational and a whole lot of fun. Hamid’s teaching style is very engaging and understandable. Two days was not enough! Great weekend.
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Joshua Hall 1 week ago
Absolutely fantastic time doing alpine 1 and 2. Personally coming from a hiking and trekking background with the goal to do some technical mountains, I could not recommend it more. Gained a lot of skills which are definitely going to be used, and Hamid our teacher, has a lot of knowledge that he is more than willing to share. Would definitely recommend it.
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Tim Preston 1 week ago
I had a wonderful time learning Ski Mountaineering with The Climbing Company. Luke was really knowledgeable and a great instructor. Fantastic experience.
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Julia van Vuuren 2 weeks ago
We did the Single Pitch Trad Course with The Climbing Company at Arapiles. We had the absolute best time and learned so much. The course was run only with a small group (4 participants) so we each got lots of personal attention & guidance throughout the weekend. Our guide Aaron was super professional, friendly & a great instructor, no question was too silly, he matched our excitement, and made sure we all felt confident leading an easy trad route & building anchors by the end of the weekend. I could not recommend the climbing company highly enough and discussion about the next course with them already started on the weekend.
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upcoming sessions:

October 2026

Advanced Rescue Skills
4 spots left

$520.00
Sat, 24 Oct, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 25 Oct, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Geboor/Camel's Hump, Mt Macedon
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November 2026

Advanced Rescue Skills
4 spots left

$520.00
Sat, 21 Nov, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 22 Nov, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Geboor/Camel's Hump, Mt Macedon
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December 2026

Advanced Rescue Skills
4 spots left

$520.00
Sat, 12 Dec, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 13 Dec, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Geboor/Camel's Hump, Mt Macedon
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