Climbing all year round
Tailored climbing courses, with educational follow-up and learning content:
- Technical content: learning the climbing-school movement methods and an introduction to multi-pitch progression techniques.
- Sporting content: carefully designed teaching situations (tactical, psychological, motor and physical).
- Educational content: discovering the Vercors and the history of climbing through the diversity and abundance of climbing sites across the plateau.
- Behavioural content: taking responsibility and managing risk through enabling situations (mutual belaying, roped climbing and climbing in teams…), raising awareness of the management and protection of natural sites and of respect for their users.
From 1 to 5 sessions of your choice at different sites. The layout of the sites depends on age and level.
Supervision and equipment
- For 6-8 year-olds: one State-qualified instructor for 6 to 7 children + 1 accompanying adult.
- From age 8: one State-qualified instructor for 8 to 9 children + 1 accompanying adult.
Equipment is provided by the instructors (helmets, harnesses, ropes and hardware).
Prices: 155 € the half-day · 300 € the full day.
Example of a course
| Session | Duration | Age | Site | Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ½ day | 6-12 | Rochers de Lans | Three-stage ascent of the “Petits Piliers” (60 m of easy climbing, teams of 4-5), 8 m abseil, handling the equipment and vocabulary. |
| 2 | ½ day | 6-17 | Les Allières | Top-rope climbing (25 m routes, teams of 2), 15 m abseil, belaying techniques and fundamental skills. |
| 3 | ½ day | 6-17 | La Fauge | Top-rope and lead climbing (25 m, teams of 2), 20 m abseil, zip line, lead climbing and refinement. |
| 4 | ½ day | 6-17 | Grotte de Lolette | Zip line, monkey bridges, abseils, roped courses, independent progression on a via ferrata cable. |
| 5 | Full day (picnic) | 12-17 | Les Trois Pucelles | Traverse and ascent of the Trois Pucelles, a genuine little mountain climb (teams of 8-9). |
| Full day | Full day (picnic) | 6-12 | Rochers de Lans | Ascent of the “Petits Piliers” and climb to the summit of the Lans mountain, 30 m abseil, giant 70 m zip line. |
In-class sessions
We also offer 2-hour in-class sessions to complement the outings, to present the equipment, give an overview of the activity and its evolution, and introduce climbing vocabulary.
Price: 120 € for 2 hours for a whole class.
All our instructors are approved by the French Ministry of Education.