Skye Cuillin Ridge Preparation Course | Elite Guides
Learn to skills required for a Guided Cuillin Ridge Traverse
Welcome to our Skye Cuillin Ridge Preparation Course, where adventure meets expertise. If your heart races at the thought of challenging mountain ridges, and you yearn for the thrill of the climb, you're in the right place. Our expertly crafted course is designed to equip you with the skills and confidence needed for the legendary Skye Cuillin Ridge Traverse, one of Scotland's most breathtaking and demanding mountaineering experiences.
Our Skye Cuillin Preparation Courses are designed to give people the opportunity to check or learn the skills required to be guided along the Skye Cuillin Ridge. Gain some insight into scrambling roped and unroped, abseiling, seconding rock climbs in your boots and the skills required to be an efficient second.
This two-day course is also a great opportunity to gain some feedback from your guide about the suitability of a Skye Cuillin Ridge Traverse, your fitness level and a chance to test out some of your kit and ask questions about what areas yoiu may need to work on to increase your chances of success.
Alpine Preparation Course
These courses are also a great way to prepare for future Alpine trips if you have ambitions further afield. With many of the skills transferable to summer alpine rock routes and some mixed alpine ridges. This is not the course if you are looking to become independent in the Alpine environment.
Top-quality Guiding and Instruction on Mountaineering Ground
Our Skye Cuillin Preparation Courses will look at Abseiling, scrambling and climbing, all whilst being guided and instructed on some of Scotland's quality mountaineering routes. Routes like Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis and Curved Ridge, North Buttress on Buachaille Etive Mor are great training routes for Skye.
Down climbing is a very important skill for Skye, and time will also be spent looking at this over the weekend. This will ideally be done by descending some graded routes too.
These two-day Skye Cuillin courses are run at a maximum ratio of 1:2 and cost £400. The use of a helmet and harness is included along with all of the technical climbing equipment.
