Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment

Session Overview

The Rock Climbing Instructor (RCI) is a nationally recognised award delivered on behalf of Mountain Training England. Mountain Training aims to inspire, enable and develop people in walking, climbing and mountaineering through the provision of nationally and internationally recognised skills training and leadership qualifications. Five Clouds Climbing is approved to deliver Rock Climbing Instructor and skills courses. All Mountain Training courses are quality assured. After completing you RCI Training (or exemption) and a period of consolidation then you can present yourself to be assessed as a Rock Climbing Instructor. Before you attend a Rock Climbing Instructor assessment, make sure you have done the following: - You must have attended a Rock Climbing Instructor (or Single Pitch Award) training course or been granted exemption from training. - You must be familiar with the syllabus. - You must be competently leading Severe grade climbs on outdoor crags with leader-placed protection. - You must have led a minimum of 40 graded rock climbs with traditional protection at a variety of venues (of which at least 20 MUST be at Severe grade or above). - You must be proficient in the use of climbing walls and have a minimum of 30 climbing wall leads graded at F4 or above. - You must be proficient in outdoor bolt-protected sport climbing and have a minimum of 10 sport climb leads graded at F4 or above. - You must have assisted in the supervision of 20 instructed sessions. These sessions should be at a variety of different venues with 10 being on indoor climbing walls and the other 10 on outdoor crags. A session is a half day or evening. At least five of these sessions must have personal reflective comments recorded on DLOG. (For guidance see question 3 in the DLOG section on this page.) - You must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least two full days or sixteen hours of instruction and included an element of assessment. Rock Climbing Instructor assessment is 2 days long.