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Lake District Rock Climbing

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Lake District Rock Climbing

ISM offers Lake District Rock Climbing courses for anyone who wishes to try rock climbing outdoors for the first time, through to someone wanting to develop their skills to become more independent or someone wanting to prepare to their alpine trip with objectives such as the Matterhorn or Eiger in mind.

The Lake District is steeped in climbing history and is a fantastic place to explore combining valley and road side crags that are very accessible to high mountain crags and summits for more adventurous mountain days and alpine preparation weekends.

Our Rock Climbing courses in the Lake District can be run as single days or over any weekend or number of days depending on the course and/or days and dates to suit you.

The Lake District has many options when it comes to accommodation - from camping through to B&B style accommodation and hotels.

Please give us a call here in the Lake District to talk through any objectives you may have or help when considering our courses so that we can help you plan your day or weekend course.

We arrange activities and courses for individuals and groups at mutually convenient times.

Costs

We generally work with groups of one or two people but can also cater for larger groups. The rates charged (for instruction and use of all technical equipment) are as follows:

1 person - £300.00 per day; 2 people - £350.00 per day; 3 people - £375.00 per day; 4 people - £400.00 per day. Please contact us for prices for larger groups.

We are happy to suggest accommodation in the local area.

Testimonials For ISM

Learned loads, the course is very carefully planned. Guiding and Instruction was excellent. Our ISM Guide was fantastic throughout & made the course really good fun. A very professional guide with a great sense of humour. Highly recommended.Summits & Skills 4000m 2026

Leigh Ritchie
Summits & Skills 4000m (Instructional Course)

I really enjoyed the course and every part of it was better than expected. I’m definitely looking to move on to a level 2 course at some point with you guys. Thanks againSummits and Skills 4000m 2026

Thomas
Summits & Skills 4000m (Instructional Course)

Our guides were all excellent, I can't speak highly enough of them. They were all good company and superb climbers, and patient with us all.Matterhorn Ascent

Donald Connolly
Matterhorn Ascent - A Classic Alpine Dream!

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Adrian Nelhams

ISM Director and IFMGA British Mountain Guide

As a Director of ISM, Adrian splits his time between guiding, the ISM office, family and climbing for himself. During his 30+ year commitment to the team, Adrian has played a key role in the development of ISM.

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