Gear and Gear Selection

There are lots of difficult decisions for those just starting out...and choosing a beginners first rack for outdoor rock climbing is one of the biggest. So in this section we aim to help the beginners choose their first climbing rack by answering the following questions and more...

What do i need to get going on my first routes?
How much gear do I need for this route?
How does it all work?

Questions like what are these things and which routes will they go in best? Answer: Wild Country's big Rocks are great for easy routes and starting off as they are very simple to place and secure once in!!

So if you're just at that point of buying your first gear please click through for help...

Gear Selection

Deciding which gear to carry and how much gear to carry is one of things that simply grows through experience. After a while you will read a guidebook and look at the rock and be able to tell which pieces you will need.
However, for the beginner it is a more difficult choice so below we have a couple of articles by one of Britains most repected climbers / mountaineers Ian Parnell about the choices available.

Click here to link to Ian Parnells Beginners Gear selection advice...

Click here to link to Ian Parnells Beginners Alpine gear selection advice...

Gear - Or the How Do I Use It Section

Again, this comes with experience; what does each piece of gear do? How does it work and how does it fit? All of this is a whole new world to those just starting out but if you click the links below you can maybe get a bit of a headstart by reading up about different items.

Friends - the big one....how to use those complicated looking sprung loaded things...and how they work!!!

Friends were invaluble tool of the 20th century & still fit the bill in the 21st. Click to see more

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