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We have a team of instructors made up of professionals with a range of backgrounds to ensure we can provide fully comprehensive route setting guidance.
Ben Norman
Route Setter and Instructor
Ben Norman is a Route Setter with over 8 years of professional experience, having worked as Head Route Setter at some of the UK's best climbing walls, as well as working as freelance route setter commercially and for events up to a national standard. Ben has spent the last few years developing route setter training through Impact and has now taught 300+ people in workshops from the UK and the rest of the world.
Ben Norman is a Route Setter with over 8 years of professional experience, having worked as Head Route Setter at some of the UK's best climbing walls, as well as working as freelance route setter commercially and for events up to a national standard. Ben has spent the last few years developing route setter training through Impact and has now taught 300+ people in workshops from the UK and the rest of the world.
Cailean Harker
Route Setter and Instructor
Cailean Harker is an experienced setter having worked in many different roles in the route setting industry over the last 15 years. Initially working as a member of an in-house setting team he then progressed to become a leading freelance route setter, working both commercially and for many national level events including the British Bouldering Championships, before becoming the route setting manager for a number of different state of the art climbing centres. Alongside this Cailean has jointly developed Impact Route Setting’s course offerings having trained many hundreds of students as well as launching Impact’s Outsourced Route setting offering.
Ben Humphris
Technical advisor and Instructor
20 years ago Ben Humphris took his first steps in route setting at his local wall in the Peak District, Derbyshire. Now a Level 3 qualified Rope Access Technician and Mountaineering Instructor, Ben is a Senior Trainer for the Association of British Climbing walls Route Setting Development Programme. As a Tech IOSH holder Ben combines Health and Safety expertise and acts as a Technical advisor for a number of climbing facilities in the UK.
20 years ago Ben Humphris took his first steps in route setting at his local wall in the Peak District, Derbyshire. Now a Level 3 qualified Rope Access Technician and Mountaineering Instructor, Ben is a Senior Trainer for the Association of British Climbing walls Route Setting Development Programme. As a Tech IOSH holder Ben combines Health and Safety expertise and acts as a Technical advisor for a number of climbing facilities in the UK.
We are Impact Route Setting, the UK's leading provider of route setting services and training in the UK.
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