How To Practise Your Mountain Leader Rope Skills At Home

WRITTEN by CHRIS & ANNE ENSOLL

Following on from our previous blog post with tips on how to practise your personal climbing skills at home, this week we’re focusing on Mountain Leader rope skills, and how to keep them up to date at home. This is probably the syllabus area that is most challenging for Mountain Leaders, and you won’t need to use these skills very often, so it is doubly important to put in a bit of time and boost your confidence, ready for when you can get out in the hills again.

1 How to store the rope, method 1

2 How to deploy the rope

3 How to store the rope, method 2

4 Using a direct belay

5 Using an indirect belay

6 Abseiling with the rope doubled

7 Abseiling with the rope single, method 1

8 Abseiling with the rope single, method 2

9 Lowering off

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