The Climbing Company

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Develop your capability & empower your adventures with specialty skills courses

The Climbing Company (formerly Melbourne Climbing School) has courses designed to teach safety skills to all levels, from absolute beginner to advanced rescue skills and these courses are suitable for both professionals and enthusiasts.

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  • Essential Self-Rescue Skills

    Basic Rescue Skills all climbers should know

    This is a two-day course covering tips, tricks and practising rescue scenarios that anyone could come across in the outdoors. These essential skills you should know to become a safe outdoor climber, and the tool-box of skills you can draw from to enhance your everyday climbing experience will be valuable as well!

    What will we learn?

    On this course you will learn:

    • Tying off a belay device
    • Escaping the belay to attend to an emergency situation
    • Z-drags and assisted hoists
    • Additional prusik knots and their uses
    • Prusiking up, and prusiking past a knot
    • Abseiling down, and abseiling past a knot
    • Retrievable single rope abseil
    • Lowering a partner past a knot (i.e. lowering a partner more than the rope length)
    • Various ways to belay if you don’t have a belay device
    Essential Self-Rescue Skills
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