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You don't need any rock climbing experience to enjoy Heli Canada Adventures' three-day Introduction to Rock Climbing courses and training...just bring an appetite for adventure! 

And if you're a seasoned rock climber, our rock climbing training courses can help: we tailor the courses to your training needs, including multi-pitch rock climbing. Heli Canada Adventures' exclusive, small group rock climbing training courses ensure that each participant receives plenty of rock climbing time and excellent training from experienced, ACMG guides.

Either way, our courses combine the best of rock climbing training and adventures, in an unbeatable setting: there's no better place than Heli Canada Adventures' home - the Gold Range of the Monashee Mountains, deep in Canada's Rockies - for "learning the ropes" of the increasingly popular sport of rock climbing.

Here, you'll find quartzite, limestone and compact gneiss that offer superb terrain for rock climbing training courses, from bouldering to multi-pitch routes. We'll use the helicopter to ascend effortlessly from 1500 to 6500 feet, focusing on rock climbing training rather than on lengthy approaches. Surrounded by glaciers, alpine tarns, wildflower meadows and outstanding rock climbing potential, you'll learn about harnesses, helmets and rock shoes on our courses within half an hour of leaving your morning cappuccino!

Day One: After an exhilarating helicopter flight from Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, Heli Canada Adventures' rock climbing courses start high in the alpine with training in the basics...harnesses, ropes, helmets and rock shoes. You'll learn how to fit and wear each piece of equipment, then it's on to ropes...condition and care, both on and off the rock, and the best ways to stack while climbing and coil afterwards.

The afternoon's adventures on our courses begin with movement-on-rock training, talking about and spotting where our feet and hands should be while rock climbing. Camp is a breeze to set up, and the gourmet food organized by our highly qualified guides is nutritious and plentiful, ensuring that our bodies are well fueled for the rock climbing adventures on these courses.

Day Two: Breakfast and coffee starts the day's adventures...along with top rope anchors, and yes, you can bring your coffee! We move into belay techniques, then into top-roping and putting it all together on belay, then progressing into lowering techniques. "Use your feet and legs, not your arms" becomes a familiar training refrain!

Rappelling leads the afternoon's adventures, allowing us to gain proficiency in this important rock climbing technique. Then it's top roping heaven and climb, climb, climb...moving from bluff to bluff quickly and easily.

Day Three: This morning on our rock climbing courses dawns with rock climbing rescue, essential training for aiding your partner, yourself or another group at the crags. We explore the rock climbing rack, and individual pieces of equipment in their proper placements.

We spend the rest of the day's adventures top roping, using all the skills we've learned, before packing up camp and enjoying another spectacular helicopter ride. By five o'clock, we're in the pub for pints and stories about our rock climbing adventures.

Heli Canada Adventures' three-day Introduction to Rock Climbing courses offer expert training, exhilarating adventures, comfortable base camp, gourmet dining and the camaraderie of like-minded rock climbing enthusiasts, all in the outstanding wilderness of Canada's Rocky Mountains. Click here for an overview of dates for our heli rock climbing courses.

Heli Canada Adventures can also meet most custom needs and dates, including incorporating rock climbing courses into a corporate incentive or teambuilding program: we look forward to working with you to customize your heli rock climbing training. Contact us or call 1-877-837-5417 (toll free in North America) for more information.

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3-Day Introduction to Rock Climbing
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Please note that Heli Canada Adventures can meet most group training needs, and can accommodate many dates and customized requests, including corporate team building and incentive programs. Contact us with details of your needs, and we'll do our best to meet them.

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