Climbing for All
A one-day course in high-quality delivery to people living with a disability in the rock climbing environment.
Climbing for all is a single-day course developed by the Institute of Outdoor Learning and Mountain Training to support excellence amongst those who work with climbers living with a disability of functional impairment.
Founded on better understanding the experience of life and climbing with an impairment, creating minimally invasive adaptations and maintaining a robust safety chain. The course helps you to facilitate others to pick up the phone and access your opportunities, have high-quality conversations around needs and ambitions and to adapt the climbing environment to suit the climber.
Empowered by these tools, the instructor or manager should be able to return to their venue equipped with the knowledge to better meet the needs of all climbers, modify their safety systems and make everyone welcome.
Part theory and part practical, this is both an introduction and practical solutions course.
Session 1
Understand disability: distribution of imparements, definitions, and empowering high-quality interactions.
Session one covers some background to inform planning for inclusive practice, including answering questions like: Who is disabled, what it means to be impaired in a function, how to have positive conversations and how to encourage people living with an impairment to come to your service.
We study the disparity between the international symbol of a wheelchair as a pictograph to mean disability with the reality of 92% of registered disabled persons not accessing the world via a wheeled mobility aid. Is your climbing wall up a flight of stairs? And unmodifiable? You can still improve your inclusive game for the 60% of people with a disability who are not mobility impaired.
We also take a look at the great fear barriers around saying the wrong thing or making the wrong assumptions, which you will come away from with a raised confidence in what to ask, what to suggest, and a positive foundation to chat from.
Session 2
Minimally Invasive Effective Adaptions
The princials of minimally invasive adaptions is to draw as closely to the experiance of an ability typoucal climber as possible. Sure we can all be hauled up a climb by a rope and effectively used mechanical advantage and for some that is exactly what they may need to experiece the vertical environment. The pricnail here is that we all love climbing to near the peak of our ablity and confidence and that is true of everyone - so we match abilty with the right adaptions.
Starting with effective use of modified communications, changes to environment and resting opportunities, we build up our tool box of possible adaptations to meet a wide range of people’s needs, culminating in the extremes of person hauling at the end of the day.
We look at how you can maintain almost all of the safety systems your organisation already uses on a daily basis and overlay adaptive systems. This makes being inclusive quick, cost-effective, easy to train and easy to manage for a risk management point of view.
Happy customer, happy staff, happy managers and happy technical advisors.
Key information for Climbing for All
Dates and Costs
Book onto course or arrange bespoke
Arrive 0930 At venue
Drive Away 1600
Next open Course @ Preston wall 17 April 2026
Click here to bookBook bespoke day - £300 + milage and wall fees
What is included?
All technical equipment
Expericed adaptive climbing instrutor
Wide range of equipment and harnesses to try
What do we actually do?
Study the population of disabled people and functionally impaired climbers.
Examine why 25% of your clinets arent disabled and how to promote inclusion
Workshop high-quality, postive, productinve and confident conversations with disabled people.
Test out a range of adaptive tools to facilitate climbing with an impairment.
Practice allong-side support
Look at self-actuated abseiling with adaptive harnesses.
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