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Level 1 Local Mine Leader Training Course, 27th-28th May 2019 (North Wales)

Cost: £150 Places:  3 places available  Venue: Betws y Coed Director: Gethin Thomas This 2 day course will cover[…]

Personal SRT training day (Good Friday; 19th April 2019)

Location: N. Wales, nr. Betws y Coed Cost: £90 per person Places available: 3 I’ve[…]

Level 1 Ropework Document now available to download from the BCA website

The long awaited (and sweated over!) document for those working through their LCMLA Level 1[…]

Drop tests on SRT foot loop lanyard

For some time now, and for those of us sad enough, there’s been over a[…]

Few photos from this weeks LCMLA training courses

Thanks to all who came along to this years North Wales Panel LCMLA training course.[…]

North Wales Panel Courses; 11th-15th December 2017

This year the North Wales Cave and Mine Leader Trainer/Assessor Panel will be putting on[…]

Tyrolean Theory

4 years of work finally complete.  If you spot any typos, keep it to yourself…

Fish Caves (Lead Mine) Anchors

For years now the anchors in Fish Caves have been concerning people, some being very[…]

Cutting ropes under tension

As part of the work I’ve been playing around with on Tyroleans the question of[…]

LCMLA Revalidation Workshop April 2016, Photos

Here’s a few photos and some of the data from the tyrolean rigging we did[…]