Single Pitch Award
This award is all about supervising safe climbing and abseiling sessions on single pitch crags. The Single Pitch Award has been designed to maintain high standards of supervision so that people can enjoy safe sessions in this increasingly popular sport.
Single Pitch Award (SPA)
The Single Pitch Award scheme is for those who are in a position of responsibility during single pitch rock climbing activities. It is primarily concerned with good practice, leading to the safe and quiet enjoyment of the activity. Completion of a training course alone, without passing the assessment course, is not a qualification in itself, although it may be of considerable personal benefit to the trainee.
It is valid throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland (MLTUK National Guidelines 2004) and is recognised by the Adventure Activities Licensing Scheme.
For the purposes of this scheme, a single pitch route is one which:
- is climbed without intermediate stances
- is described as a single pitch in the guidebook
- allows climbers to be lowered to the ground at all times
- is non-tidal, non-serious and has little objective danger
- presents no difficulties on approach or retreat, such as route finding, scrambling or navigating
- The majority of these routes must be in the UK and Ireland.
About Mountain Training
Spirit of Adventure is an approved provider of Mountain Training Courses
Mountain Training is the collection of awarding bodies for skills courses and qualifications in walking, climbing and mountaineering in the UK and Ireland.
Mountain Training exists to inspire, enable and develop people as walkers, climbers and mountaineers through leadership and coaching excellence.
All of their nationally-recognised schemes are designed to educate and train people so that they can safely enjoy the climbing walls, crags, coast, hills and mountains of our beautiful country.
Single Pitch Award
Training
Single Pitch Award training is run by Spirit of Adventure as an approved provider. The training course lasts for 2 days.
Cost: £xxx.xx including VAT per person
Assessments
Single Pitch Award assessments are run by Spirit of Adventure as an approved provider. The Single Pitch Award assessment is 2 days long (approx. 20 hours).
Cost: £xxx.xx including VAT per person
Please contact us to find out more about these courses
Address
Spirit of Adventure
Powdermills
Princetown
Yelverton
Devon
PL20 6SP
United Kingdom
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