Climbing, Ski Touring & Winter Skills - Instruction & Guiding
If you'd like to try rock climbing, mountaineering, abseiling or a winter skills weekend or ski touring please get in touch with me.
Experience atmospheric routes on the sunny Galloway sea
cliffs.
Learn to lead on scenic and friendly outcrops like Clifton or the Clints
of Dromore.
Enjoy long routes on the remote multi-pitch mountain crags of
Galloway.
Experience your first climb or abseil at Powillimount.
I can also organise winter skills weekends, climbing instruction and guiding all over Scotland and northern England.
Please call or email for details and rates.
As a guideline my normal rates as an instructor are between £120 and £150 per day,
depending on the activity, equipment involved, location, number of clients and timing.
Shorter sessions of 2 to 4 hours would normally cost from £40-80. Generally
speaking this cost can be shared between two or more people. Please phone or email
me to discuss your requirements. Contact details appear below and on the index page of this website.
I can help whether you want easy guided ascents or would like to learn to lead climbs for yourself. I can run abseiling courses, instruct novices, teach self-rescue sessions, or train you in the essential winter skills of using an ice-axe and crampons. I can also help if you just want any other advice, information or instruction related to climbing and mountaineering. I am a professional Mountaineering Instructor and member of the AMI. I hold the highest level of mountaineering qualification valid in the UK, the Mountaineering Instructor Certificate, (MIC). I have been climbing in the Galloway Hills and on the Solway seacliffs for nearly twenty years now and know most of the best venues and best routes. I have been involved in over 100 first ascents of routes and many peaks, from new rock and ice climbs in Galloway to first ascents of 6000m peaks in the Andes.
Contact
If you'd like to try climbing, winter or summer, whether just a taster session, guided ascents or learning to lead, or if you just want any other help advice or instruction, get in touch with me, John Biggar. Contact me by phone on
01556 503929
or write or call in at 37a, St. Andrew Street, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, DG7 1EN, Scotland.
or email me at
Linda Biggar on the top, III/IV, crux pitch of the Black Gutter, Black Gairy, Merrick.
Below:- Kids climbing for the first time at the Lookout.
Ski Touring, Winter Walking and Avalanche Hazard Evaluation
I can also assist with winter walking, winter skills and ski touring in Galloway and or the rest of Scotland. I hold the MIC, a qualification at a much higher level than WinterML, and also have undertaken the Alpine training course as a downhill ski instructor with BASI. I have over 200 days of experience ski-touring experience in Scotland, the Alps and the Andes. I am also a competent snowboarder with a little off-piste experience.
Pictured above is myself skiing into the Howe of the Cauldron, Merrick, Galloway Hills. For those interested in skiing check out our new Skiing in Galloway page.
More Pictures
Instructor and clients on easy but exposed ground near the top of Curved Ridge, Buachaille Etive Mor.
Beautiful scenery in the Cuillins, Isle of Skye, taken on the classic Blaven-Clach Glas traverse.
Kate Brown feeling the exposure on Flying Dutchman, Glen Nevis, Lochaber.
Linda, Audrey and Mhairi crossing the gap, Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis - Alpine climbing conditions on Scotland's highest peak in early June.
Students climbing on Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis, June 2006.
Contact
If you'd like to try climbing, winter or summer, whether just a taster session, guided ascents or learning to lead, or if you just want any other help advice or instruction, get in touch with me, John Biggar. Contact me by phone on
01556 503929
or write or call in at 37a, St. Andrew Street, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, DG7 1EN, Scotland.
or email me at
