NOLS - Rock Climbing

  United States

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Wyoming

Term: Summer 

Description: This course is a comprehensive immersion into the sport of traditional (trad) rock climbing. You'll learn the fundamentals of climbing on some of Wyoming's famous sheer granite walls and towering spires.

Your instructors will emphasize such skills as climbing techniques, rope systems, anchors, rappelling and belaying, protection placement, risk management and lead philosophy. You'll have ample opportunity to practice your climbing skills while you develop a strong foundation in wilderness ethics and experience extended backcountry living and traveling.

With a student to instructor ratio of 4:1, you'll get the personal attention necessary to develop your climbing and backcountry skills rapidly.

Highlights: Located in west central Wyoming, the Wind River Range is one of the most spectacular wilderness classrooms in the world. NOLS students have been traveling into this remote mountain range for more than 35 years to learn leadership, mountaineering, horsepacking, and rock climbing skills. It is a land filled with high granite peaks, mountain lakes ideal for fly fishing, and sub-alpine forests. The abundant high-altitude granite and permanent snow here make it a perfect setting for learning the basics of rock climbing and mountaineering. Gannett Peak, at over 13,800 feet, is the highest peak in the middle and northern Rocky Mountains and lies in this range. No matter what course in the Wind River Range you chose, you'll travel and learn in the region's abundant diversity, sharing the land with moose, deer, elk, bighorn sheep, fox, and an occasional black bear.

College Credit
(Optional)

6 Semester Credit Hours:
4 Hours Skills Practicum
2 Hours Risk Assessment

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: USD 3,765

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to United States Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Scholarships are Available. Each year NOLS offers over USD 800,000 dollars in scholarship assistance. Scholarship aid is available to applicants who show great potential to excel as NOLS students and who would be unable to attend without financial aid. These scholarship dollars are made available through the generosity of alumni and friends to the NOLS Fund. Our graduates realize the great impact a NOLS education has and volunteer both time and money to further the school's mission.

Application Process Involves:

• Phone Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Job and Internship Network

NOLS The National Outdoor Leadership School's Mission Statement: The mission of the National Outdoor Leadership School is to be the leading source and teacher of wilderness skills and leadership that serve people and the environment.

Year Founded: 1965