Do you know that there's rock climbing certificates?
By minotaur87
@minotaur87 (769)
Singapore
February 18, 2010 6:34pm CST
Initially, I thought the difference between professional rock climbers and normal rock climbers is that the former has better equipment and more training time than the latter. Then one day, I went for a leadership course, there's a 3 hour course on rock climbing. We are taught the basics of how to climb properly, belaying, etc. Then at the end of the course, we actually got a Level 1 rock climbing certificate. We are told that there are higher level certificates that rock climber are advise to obtain before embarking on mountain climbing. Have you heard of the existence of such certificate?
3 responses
@Eileen_R (5)
• United States
21 Jul 10
I've never heard of a Level 1 rock climbing certificate. The two organizations I know of are the AMGA (American Mountaineering Guide Assocation) and IFMGA (International Federation Mountain Guides Assocation). I may have the spellings incorrect though as I'm not yet allowed to cut and paste here (I just joined).
Most climbers don't have a certification. There are professional rockclimbers who are considered to be professional because they are sponsored by sports companies and/or win prize money at competitions but they don't usually have certifications either.
@chocolatelle (277)
• Philippines
19 Feb 10
congratulations on your certificate! i've always wanted to rockclimb :) but i never knew you can get a certificate on it. a friend of mine also tried something for the first time.. and that is bungee jumping from the tallest building in macau :) she also got a certificate from doing it. i'm happy for her because she did it bravely and of course she was safe after the jump. I'd like to have a certificate for doing all those kinds of stunt and i'll display it as proof of my courage hehe ^_^
