If you’re ready to turn your climbing hobby into a career, you’ll be interested in registering for a Mountain Training award. It’s easy but not completely obvious how to go about it. When I started looking into registering for the Climbing Wall Award, I wasn’t sure how to begin logging my previous climbing experience. So I fired off an email to Mountain Training and thankfully, a helpful Mountain Training staff member answered.
Summary
So, you can’t begin logging your previous climbing experience before you have registered for the award you want to do. It costs £44.00 to register for the Climbing Wall Award and you need to be a member of a UK mountaineering council to register. That means paying £15.72 to become a member of the British Mountaineering Council (for the first year only by Direct Debit). Alternatively, you can join Mountaineering Scotland or Mountaineering Ireland for £30.50 and €40.60 respectively.
Once you’re registered with the relevant mountaineering body and award, you’ll have access to your Mountain Training DLOG. The DLOG allows you to log your climbs and back date them, which means you don’t have to start from scratch. To begin the Climbing Wall Award training, you’ll need to have visited 3 indoor climbing centres at least 15 times and have led routes before. But you can find all the requirements for completing the training, assessment and consolidation on Mountain Training’s main CWA page.
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