Training and courses

Canyoning Basics

Your first step into canyoneering. How canyons work, flash floods and other hazards, low-impact travel, rappel gear, rope care and fall factor, basic anchors and knots, rappel technique and the fireman's belay. Ends with guided rappels.

Price, location and dates coming soon.

High-Angle Techniques and Rescue

The course we use to train working guides.

1. Essential knots: bowline family, figure 8 and 9, alpine butterfly, double fisherman's.
2. Hitches: autoblock, VT prusik, klemheist, munter, clove, girth.
3. On-rope skills: fireman's and top belay, body position in water, lock-offs, friction-hitch backups, passing a knot, changeovers, ascending.
4. Anchors: natural single-point anchors and equalized multi-point anchors.
5. Rigging: contingency anchors for lowering and raising, blocked and double-rope systems, traverse lines, 2:1 and 3:1 haul systems, retrievable rigging, tensioned guide lines.
6. Rope rescue: rappel pick-off, lowering from the top, raising with mechanical advantage, litter packaging.
7. Wilderness first aid essentials and building a field first aid kit.

Price per person or per group on request.

Staff programs

Built around your site, your gear and your procedures. In 2023 we ran a three-day onsite program for U.S. Air Force personnel: jungle waterfall rappel systems, and evacuation and rescue in a jungle environment.