Mountain Leader Training Association The Association provides opportunities for further education, experience and training, as well as access to an excellent insurance package.
You can join MLTA for £25. Visit the site on www.mlta.co.uk
Developments in coaching Reviews are now beginning for the MIA and MIC schemes to ensure that the qualifications remain at the cutting edge of instructional qualifications. MLTUK has been tasked to set up a parallel coaching qualifications structure.
You can click here to access the preliminary report on coaching, which led to the coaching project.
The Climbing Wall Award
This award enables holders to supervise people on climbing walls. To gain this award you need more than just good personal climbing skills. Our approved Course Providers will teach you about safe group management, indoors and out, crag etiquette, environmental responsibilities and more. You will learn how to become an effective supervisor, encouraging others to enjoy their climbing safely, whilst also improving some of your own climbing skills. An additional module is available for those candidates who wish to supervise abseiling and top-roping activities on those walls which have top access. Some providers may incorporate this into the maincourse in a 20 hour programme.
Membership of an affiliated mountaineering club or a mountaineering council (you can join at a discounted rate using the PDF form)
Have at least six months experience of using a variety of climbing walls.
Have a genuine interest in climbing and the supervision of groups on climbing walls.
Training
The CWA training course lasts for a minimum of 16 hours and is often run over an intensive weekend. Providers run their courses throughout the UK and at most times of the year. If you have an exceptionally high level of experience you may apply for exemption from the training course.
Consolidation
At the end of your course the training staff will develop with you a personal action plan that will guide you through this phase of the scheme (usually a period of at least six months).
Assessment
The minimum contact time for those undertaking the Climbing Wall Award assessment is six hours; minimum contact time for the Abseiling module assessment is two hours. Assessment includes personal climbing, group supervision and the use of climbing walls.
Assessment Requirements:
Minimum 18 years of age prior to attendance on an assessment course
Have attended a training course or been granted exemption from training and have a relevant training page in their logbook
Have recorded a minimum of thirty visits to at least three different climbing walls
Have a genuine interest in climbing and the supervision of groups on climbing walls.
Additionally have assisted a qualified 5 supervisor on at least fifteen instructed sessions on at least two different walls including a large public facility in a variety of contexts
Hold a valid first aid certificate
Climbing walls and purpose-built artificial structures
For the purposes of this scheme, a climbing wall is:
An artificial structure, designed for the purpose of being used for climbing activities
(this includes towers, artificial boulders and mobile climbing walls)
Indoors or outdoors
A structure which has safety equipment such as top anchors in place and is
maintained through a management regime
allows climbers to be lowered to the ground at all times
