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EASY
ROCK CLIMBING IN THE
PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK
for CORPORATE GROUPS & PARTIES
Rock Lea Activity Centre has been running safe,
successful, fun outdoor rock climbing lessons in the
accessible Peak District as part of corporate events
and training courses for large and small groups of
complete beginners for over 29 years. Often featured
on TV & radio we have an enviable safety record and
we field some of the most experienced rock climbing
instructors available in the Peak District. Our services
involve generous staffing ratios and options such as
minibus collections from your hotels, barbecues, etc.
We are frequently employed by some of the best known
companies in the UK, Germany and USA and have
hundreds of kind unsolicited client endorsements
on file which you can see if you book a pre-event
inspection / planning visit.
Click to see a list of some of our clients.
Prices this year for short sessions of rock climbing & abseiling
instruction for social groups of complete novices in the
accessible Peak Park start from as little as £69 each plus vat.
Call us on 01433-650345 for a quotation for longer sessions.
If you are a corporate event organiser and know what dates
you require & the number in your party please call us for a
quotation please phone us during normal office hours on
01433-650345 for details. Individuals can also join us on our
outdoor centre's OPEN EVENTS on special dates and can
also book individual priavte tuition using our guiding service.
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Click here to go to our web page with loads of photographs of our corporate training
and corporate hospitality clients rock climbing under the safe aegis of our nationally qualified instructors.
Link to our second additional climbing tuition page.
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Other height related activities
on offer for corporate groups
include our high ropes
team challenges, scrambling & abseiling.
As
featured on BBC1 and BBC2 and ITV & NBC cable television.
Abseil
Training with Lincolnshire Police
Abseiling
is a great activity for groups all year round.
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Peak Activities use our executive people carriers and minibuses and Land Rovers
to transport our corporate groups up the the nearby crags overlooking our centre.
The rock climbs we use here can be seen from our base & are just 5 minutes drive away
....or if you're feeling fit or need some exercise you can walk up to or down from the crags.
All
of our adventurous outdoors activities are fully & comprehensively
insured.
We provide everything you'll need from safety helmets,
cups of tea and coffee, safety ropes, nuts and slings,
sophisticated belay devices, descendeurs,
leather gloves, karabiners & climbers' harnesses.
Click here
to see further general information on rock climbing, abseiling
and other activities with Peak Activities Ltd.
Our guiding
service for very small private groups & for individuals wanting
personalised tuition is very popular.
MAKING
A BOOKING
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OUR STANDARD TERMS
& CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS
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Several of our rock climbing tutors and instructors are members of the UK's
Association of Mountaineering Instructors with MIA and SPA & MIC qualifications.
Please note that rock climbing crags in the Peak District National Park
tend to be located high up and in fairly windswept exposed places
where you or some of your particpants could get quite cold and wet
if it starts to rain or if it is misty or foggy and if participants are
ill-equipped for the conditions at the time. Hoping it won't rain is naive.
It can rain in the UKon average one day in three.
Therefore for their comfort as well as for safety, all participants do need
to know what they are doing well before they get here and need to be
bringing along spare kit such as fleeces and extra jumpers as well as
wind and waterproof jackets and warm stretchy trousers...such as
warm track suit bottoms rather than jeans ( jeans get very wet and
feel very cold when it is windy and wet).
The trend amongst some day trip group organisers to try to surprise
people and only tell them where they are going and what they are doing
after they have left home is ill conceived when you are taking people
up into quite hilly and mountainous terrain. It may be quite acceptable
for a mystery tour to Alton Towers for the day but in our opinion ( based
on over 25 years expertise and experience ) it's not a sensible thing
to do to your group when you've booked them in for, say caving or
rock climbing. ( unless,. of course, you really don't like your colleagues ! )
From experience trying to surprise people is rarely such a sensible idea,
so we do expect our pre trip briefing notes and equipment list notes
to be passed on to participants well in advance so they will come on
their event with us and get the most out of the time and money that's
been invested on their corporate activity sessions with us.
Sorry to sound so heavy - but recently we've had a few group leaders
who have ignored this sensible advice and some of their delegates
have asked us to reinforce this point here on the website.
What if it rains whilst we are out rock climbing with the instructors ?
One can climb out in the rain and wind but it's not a heap of fun
for complete beginners, so we normally plan and pre-arrange for
suitable alternatives to be ready and put in place with the agreement
of the group organiser in case it rains. Wet weather options include
orienteering, bridge abseiling and - most popular and most suitable
when it's wet outside we go caving where it will be warm and dry.
Treasure hunts and mountain bike trail quests are also very
popular wet weather activities we can substitute at short
notice if the weather is really lousy and it's unsuitable for
rock climbing.
BEING CAREFUL DURING HIGH VOLTAGE SUMMER CLIMBING....
Whist climbing in the wet is slippy, harder and more difficult
than when the rock is dry and warm, climbing in thundery weather
is extremely hazardous and so groups from our centre will be taken
from the threat of lightning strikes if we can hear thunder and there
is a threat of a strike occurring. Crags such as Stanage Edge which
overlook our centre are particulalry prone to lightening strikes
during thundery storms - so your instructor's decision in such
circumstances is absolute and final if s/he feels youy need to seek
shelter well away from the crags. Normally you can return to the crags
and start cliombing again safely approx. 30 mins after a thunder storm
has passed over. Sheltering in a minibus is a safe place, but more often
than not it's easier to drive to the centre just 5 minutes away and have
a toilet break and a cup of tea inside the building until the storm has
moved over.
The village swimming pool operates a very similar policy of getting
bathers out of harm's way when there's thunder in the air. If you find
yourself out climbing with an instructor from another centre when you
can hear thunder or see flashes all around you - you might want to ask
why you haven't retreated somewhere safer ! Not all local centres' staff
are expert mountaineering instructors - some are just climbing tutors
per se. They may not be trained to be aware that if you can hear thunder
you are in immediate striking distance of a potentially lethal ground strike.
It's always better to be safe than sorry !
ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS FOR GROUP LEADERS
Peak Activities Ltd, Rock Lea Centre, Station Rd., Hathersage,
Hope Valley, The Peak District National Park, S32 1DD.
Telephone
07771-855105 or 01433-650345
