2024 Climb Shetland membership
2024 membership is now available. Membership runs for one year from 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025.
A whole year’s membership is still just £35.
Memberships forms can be downloaded here, and are also available at Aith climbing wall, or from committee members.
Membership gives you full free access to outdoor climbing on real rock with other club members. Skills development sessions indoors and out. Use of club equipment including helmets, abseil ropes and banks stakes.
As a full member of the club, so you can also vote at Club meetings and the AGM. Additional benefits include discounts with outdoor equipment retailers, and third party liability insurance with Mountaineering Scotland.
If you are sooth there are Mountaineering Scotland courses and events https://www.mountaineering.scot/safety-and-skills/courses-and-events/courses.
https://www.mountaineering.scot/members/members-benefits/your-discounts
Short term Shetland?
Even if you are just going to be here in Shetland for a few weeks or months, we would love to have you as a member. For newer competent climbers, we can offer support and progression, and maybe your first experience of climbing on real rock. For more experienced climbers, we get the chance to learn from each other, and introduce the wonderland that is Shetland climbing.
As we are a small club, we don’t have the resources or spare hands that would allow us to take out new climbers for a few trips to see if they would like to join. We’ve done that in the past, but often club members would end up being “experience days out” guides with no time for their own climbing. All our climbing is on sea cliffs, (da banks in Shaetlan). At crags where an abseil approach isn’t needed, there can still be some serious scrambles to get to the start of the climb. Becoming a member means you understand the risks and responsibilities of climbing in Shetland, and we can provide support and skills development to get you ready for your first climb outdoors, and best of all you are helping to contribute to climbing in Shetland.
