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EASY ROCK
CLIMBING FOR CORPORATE GROUPS & PARTIES
Prices this year for short sessions of climbing and abseiling instruction for social
groups of complete novices in the accessible Peak Park start from as little as £69
each plus vat. If you 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 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 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 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 UK
on 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 a bit daft 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
