Following the completion of your Overcome Your Fear of Heights course with us we always encourage you to continue investing in the journey with more personal challenges. It’s this that makes the real difference. With every success comes renewed confidence. Here are some challenges and courses that you might love to join us for …
More Challenges at Height to Aspire to …
- 1:1 Follow up days
- Indoor climbing day
- Rock climbing day (outdoors) for Fear of Heights graduates
- The Great Ridge, Peak District
- Walks on the wild side, Peak District
- Conquer Snowdon
- Lake District scrambles
- Snowdonia scrambles
- 10 climbs, in 10Km, in 10 hours
Continue the journey & enjoy more adventures on these Fear of Heights follow up days and courses. Please note, these days are designed for the graduates of our Overcome Your Fear of Heights courses. If you have landed on this page by accident and you wish to overcome your fear of heights learn more about how we can help you here.
1:1 follow up day
Join us 1:1 for another day working at height. This day might be based in the Peak District, at a climbing wall in Sheffield or in the mountains of Snowdonia. On this day we invest in your previous successes and look to further develop your confidence at height. The course is designed to differentiate for different people with different needs. If you want to join us with a friend or other course graduates then that also is possible.
Location: Peak District or Snowdonia
Price per person: £160 (Peak District) & £170 (Snowdonia)
Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and we’ll get back to you asap.
Indoor Climbing Day
You may enter the wall wondering what on earth you’re doing where people climb!? Just as on the Fear of Heights course, we start small, we start easy and very slowly we ease you out of your comfort zone. Before you know it you won’t be thinking about the height you’re climbing: instead you will be working on how to climb better! It’s an amazing day and one that always has people buzzing!
Location: Foundry Climbing Wall, Sheffield S3 8EN
Price per person: £65 plus £7.50 entry fee
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Dates coming up:
16th January 2021
27th March 2021
Alternatively, book yourself onto this … 1:1 from £150
Private bookings can be taken for this day. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
Rock climbing day, Peak District
These are specially tailored days for people who have completed our Fear of Heights course, and want to try some more climbing. Just as we did on the course, we start easy with a bouldering session getting your head being used to being back on the rock. Then we slowly introduce to some classic, easy routes, reinforcing new positive pathways for your head to work with.
Location: Peak District National Park
Price per person: £75
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Base Camp: Castleton, Derbyshire
Dates coming up:
28th March 2021
All dates are Mondays that occur right after our free walking weekends – so feel free to combine both!
Alternatively, book yourself onto this … 1:1 from £150
Private bookings can be taken for this day. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
The Great Ridge, Peak District
On this day’s walk you will get to test out your new-found confidence with a very pleasant walk along a beautiful and very scenic skyline. This great walk may offer a few mild challenges for those of you that have had a fear of heights in the past.
Location: Peak District National Park
Price per person: £50
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Base Camp: Castleton, Derbyshire
Dates coming up:
16th October 2020
17th January 2021
9th July 2021
26th September 2021
All dates are Fridays that occur right before our free walking weekends – so feel free to combine both!
Alternatively, book yourself onto this … 1:1 from £120
Private bookings can be taken for this day. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
Walks on the wild side
On these two days we bring to you two great Peak District walks that will offer us a few moments of challenge within two great walks. On the first day we will climb to the plateau of Kinder Scout via a short scramble up Crowden Clough. The second day’s walk leads us over two wonderful White Peak hills – Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill.
Location: Peak District National Park
Price per person: £110
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Base Camp: Castleton, Derbyshire
Dates coming up:
25th/26th March 2021
All dates are Thursday/Fridays that occur right before our free walking weekends – so feel free to combine both!
Alternatively, book yourself onto these 2 walks 1:1 for £250
Private bookings can be taken for this day. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
Conquer Snowdon
Snowdonia – two classic Welsh mountain routes, Snowdon via Y Lliwedd and the Nantlle Ridge
These two days are listed in the guide book as grade 1 scrambles and so they will involve some moments that are exposed and at height. But really they would be better described as airy walks. For somebody setting out to try their confidence at height you couldn’t get a kinder two days whilst enjoying some superb scenery.
Saturday’s guided scrambling will lead us to the top of Snowdon. Because we’ll be headed up via Y Lliwedd and Snowdon’s East Ridge, we’ll be missing out on the bank-holiday crowds.
Sunday’s route will find us even more solitude from the masses as we head off in search of the Nantlle Ridge. This is a delightful day on the hill interspersed with sections with scrambling up the rocks.
Location: Snowdonia
Price per person: £115
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Base Camp: Nant Peris
Accommodation: Camping / YHA / B&B to suit
Dates coming up:
1st/2nd May 2021
Private bookings can be taken for this course. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
Lake District scrambles
Helvellyn via Striding Edge
Step forth in pursuit of England’s third highest peak, Helvellyn at 949m via the airy ridge of Striding Edge. Striding Edge can be as pleasant or as scary as you make it – perfect for the novice or the seasoned scrambler. On Sunday we’ll be driving north to tackle Blencathra via the infamous Sharp Edge!
Location: The Lake District
Price per person: £125
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Base Camp: Patterdale
Dates coming up:
22nd/23rd May 2021
11th/12th September 2021
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- FAQ
- Participation Agreement
- Know before you go: see the video for Striding Edge
Private bookings can be taken for this course. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
Snowdonia Scrambles
Guided scrambling Snowdonia
Snowdon via Y Gribin and the East Ridge, and Carnedd Dafydd via the Llech Ddu Spur
Saturday’s guided scrambling leads us to the summit of Snowdon via the wonderful Y Gribin Ridge. We may start the day with the masses, but we’ll leave them to go on their way from the Miners’ Path before meeting them once more on the mountain summit. We’ll descend via Snowdon’s little known South Ridge making this the perfect day.
Sunday’s scrambling leads us up the brilliant Llech Ddu Spur. When looking for peace and solitude with a generous dollop of excitement this is the place to come.
Location: Snowdonia
Price per person:£125
Leader/client ratio: 1:4
Base Camp: Llanberis/Nant Peris
Dates coming up:
5th/6th June 2021
18th/19th September 2021
- FAQ
- Participation Agreement
- Know before you go: see a video for the Llech Ddu Spu
Private bookings can be taken for this course. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
10 climbs, in 10Km, in 10 hours
Can you climb 10 routes in 10Km inside just 10 hours? Here’s your chance to try!? Join us for this excellent Peak District challenge and mini-adventure. No previous experience is necessary. We will provide all the kit, expertise and plenty of encouragement!
Location: the grit-stone edges of the Peak District National Park
Price per person: £65
Instructor/client ratio: 1:4
Meeting point: Hathersage, Derbyshire
Dates coming up:
12th June 2021
28th August 2021
Alternatively, book yourself onto one day … 1:1 for £160
Private bookings can be taken for this day. Contact us with your preferred date(s) that suit you and the numbers and we’ll get back to you asap with all the details
Press and Media
Change your life in a weekend – a review of the Will4Adventure Fear of Heights course appeared in The Guardian newspaper on 30th July 2011
High Peak Radio interview and course review with Lissa Cook – fear of height anxiety beaten in just two days.
Video Footage from one of our first ever Fear of Heights courses
Gripped? 7 Top Tips on how to beat your fear of heights
The amygdala is the small part of your brain which controls emotions, the fight or flight response (fear) and impulsive behaviour. When you’re on the edge and fearing for your life it’s this acorn sized bit of your brain that’s doing the work … but it’s your cerebral cortex (the clever, rational thinking part) that needs to be. This is how …
1. Start breathing – stop holding your breath (you will be). Take TEN deep breaths. Count them in and out.
2. Distract your brain, start forcing it to think. You really really must do this. For example try recalling your mobile phone number in reverse. This will help to engage your your rational thinking cortex, and this will begin to calm you down.
3. Visualise someone you know (or James Bond for me) who is really confident climbing or with heights – pretend you are them. (I hum the James Bond tune too).
4. Visualise yourself at the top or at a safe place and see how much nicer that will be for you.
5. Keep that cortex working – tell yourself your mobile phone number in reverse again.
6. Thinking head now engaged – start thinking and looking. Find placements for your feet, and your hands will take care of themselves.
7. Once out of immediate trouble, take the time then to plan each step to the next safe platform.
Still not sure or a little bit worried about doing the course? It’s totally natural and fine to feel that way. Email will@will4adventure.com or feel free to call Will Legon on 07791 860 163 with any questions or concerns; we are always happy to help.