Climbing Resource Reference

In a similar vein to HowNot2's various "Bibles" - I want to share a resource compilation / skills curriculum I've gradually put together. I am not a guide nor climbing educator, so my goal is not to compile information on these various topics into one place, but rather provide a structure to learning about different topics with references to resources made by qualified instructors teaching current best practices.

Another goal has been to identify specific tasks / skills listed by topic in order to 1) give new climbers a clear objective to work towards that will increase their knowledge and ability and 2) help myself as I teach new climbers build lessons that work directly towards enabling other climbers to do something that they could not do before. I've also  organized these skills by level of climber (participant, follower, leader) within type of terrain (single-pitch, multi-pitch, alpine) as a loose guide as to who should know how to do a given task.

Finally, I built some simple checklist skill sheets as another tool to help teach climbers new skills, or to check yourself as you practice on your own.

I'll reiterate again that I am not a guide or a professional educator, so as much as I have tried to make sure the content here is in line with accepted best practices, there are going to be some mistakes and missing content. It is a living document and I am asking for feedback! The Google Doc is open to comments and of course MP comments are bound to spark some healthy discussion. Hope it will help someone on their climbing journey!

Climbing Resource Reference

Just chiming in to say this is pretty kick ass :) I’ll be saving it and going through the links when I have time.

But as a new outdoor climber, I’m less concerned about learning all the climbing, belaying, anchor etc techniques and more concerned about safety or failure modes. Aka, how not to die.

I know safety is discussed in many of these resources but a dedicated safety section would be cool although might not be your goal here.

In any case, Phylp phylp has a thread and site about climbing failure modes and it’s very insightful. Working on a mini version to share with those I take outdoors