Sport

Climbing

Sheffield is the climbing capital of Britain and is home to some of the best cliffs and climbing walls in the country. As a club we organise trips to the peaks and other parts of the UK as well as weekly training at climbing walls. We are also organising cheap trips to places like the Lake District, North Wales, and even Spain.

We accommodate people of all abilities from those that just want to come and try it out, to experienced climbers pushing their grades that want some mates to climb with. Whatever your standard, we offer a range of courses to enable you to progress with your climbing, enabling everyone to improve and enjoy themselves as much as possible.

Members can be as involved as they want with the club as we will be holding trip meetings where people can put forward their ideas of where they want to go on trips. You can also join the committee if you want to be involved in the running of the club. However if you just want a few motivated people to climb with and loads of trips then the club is perfect for that as well.

Contact

Chair: Nick Sillem
Email: b0012542@my.shu.ac.uk

Getting Started

For the first few sessions we can provide everything that you need to begin climbing so you will only have to pay the entry to the climbing walls or the bus fare to the peak. When you are ready to buy your own kit, we organise a discount day at the ‘Crag X’ climbing shop to buy the minimum equipment that you need; a harness and climbing shoes.

Cost

The Membership cost is £30; £15 of this is paid to the Sports Union and £15 is a contribution to the Climbing Club. However, you only need to pay this after a few weeks so don’t let it put you off coming to have a go. Once paid, please remember to register via the Sports Union Home Page to make you payment valid!

We also run some courses such as “Moving Outdoors” and “Learning to Lead” which are heavily discounted at cost about £10 each. Any Club trips will be between £25 and £30 per person – bargain!

Trips

We will be going out to the Peak District every weekend that the weather is good enough and will also be going on weekend trips to other parts of the UK.

Training

We will be training once a week at either ‘The Foundry’ or ‘The Edge’ climbing walls. Many of us also train regularly at ‘The Climbing Works’ bouldering wall`.

Competitions

This Year we will be taking part in both the Varsity and BUCS bouldering competitions. Many of us will also be taking part in the Winter bouldering competitions at ‘The Foundry’ climbing wall.