More than Mountains is a small, friendly company based in the Lake District that specialises in tailoring courses to perfectly fit your needs and goals. We offer a whole range of outdoor activities including rock climbing, scrambling, guided tours and walks with a Blue Badge tourist guide, navigation courses, multi-activity days and winter mountaineering courses. All of our courses are run by highly qualified and knowledgeable instructors whose passion for what they do is always evident.

Featured Courses

Gift voucher

Gift voucher

If you are looking for a birthday or Christmas present for friends or family why not get them a More than Mountains gift voucher? You can buy a gift voucher for any amount, you can book them on to a specific course or you can leave the choice up to them.
From £55.00
Beginners' Climbing Course

Beginners' Climbing Course

Dates now available for 2017! Book now to secure your place. Perfect if you have never tried climbing or have only ever climbed indoors.
£75.00 (was £75.00)
Beginners' Navigation Course

Beginners' Navigation Course

Places available on our Beginners' Navigation Course on Saturday 23rd July. Starts in Bowness on Windermere. Friendly, practical course.
£55.00

TESTIMONIALS

Family Multi Activity Day

Brilliant day out. Highly recommend especially if you have young kids. No matter the weather it will be a memorable, safe and adventurous day. You don't need to be super fit either as the day is modelled around your abilities. Go for it!

Claire

Intermediate Navigation Course

My friend and I have just had a weekend course learning and practising navigation skills with Jill as our instructor. Jill made the course varied and very interesting and I've gained a lot of knowledge and confidence. Fantastic experience and thank you Jill. After some time practising my new skills I will return to do an advanced course.

Dave

Private Scrambling Course

I've used More Than Mountains on three occasions in the Lakes. First time out (couple of years ago) we scrambled Cam Crag Ridge. This year Nick took me up Pinnacle Ridge - a big ambition of mine. We then went scrambling/climbing on Shepherd's Crag with my 6 year old daughter, and Nick was fantastic with her too, very patient and helping her at her level really naturally. Nick obviously knows his stuff forwards and backwards and has been a great help to me revising stuff I learned on ML Training. Thoroughly recommended for walking/scrambling/climbing.

Richard

Private Climbing Course

In many situations I have found guides unwilling or unable to explain the reasoning/logic behind the techniques they used (many times it is just because they were taught that way). With Nick I was able to ask questions and he clearly had a deep understanding of the subject and could explain simply the pros/cons and reasoning behind his decisions. This helped to refresh, reinforce and build my own understanding which is essential in my learning processes.

Simon

Mountain Leader Refresher

I meant to email you ref my ML assessment. Just to let you know that I passed Hurrah! Thanks for the navigation course last year. It really helped.

Andy

Learn to Lead Course

Nick was really good at not only showing what to do, but also why it is done. He was patient and enthusiastic giving me as much information as possible without over doing it. Thanks for a great week, I achieved far more than expected and am now keener than ever to do more and more climbing. I will certainly recommend you to friends.

Matthew

Rock Climbing Course

The instruction was superb with patience, care, attention to detail and safety in abundance.

Mark

Introduction to Rock Climbing

Nick came across as being very approachable and experienced. This combination helped us feel totally at ease whilst attempting to climb the rock, we both agree that we felt comfortable in putting our trust in Nick.

Kevin

Rock Climbing Course

(The course) was about perfect in length, suitability, accessibility and pace.

Tina

Introduction to Rock Climbing

Thank you very much Nick for a really good weekend. I really appreciated the fact that you gave us time to figure out our own way up the rocks and helped when you knew we were stuck or when the rocks were obviously difficult.

Hannah

Learn to Lead Course

I really enjoyed this week of climbing. I learned so much and I can't wait to practice now.

Audrey

Rescue Skills for Multi-Pitch Climbing

Likeable, approachable and informative. Nick was able to demonstrate a relaxed and instructive style which enabled you to absorb any of the vital information - refreshing some of the rope work skills that were long ago buried and learning more up to date methods for that ever important "Toolbox" of reference when on the crags.

Sean
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