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Our core team of instructors are passionate climbers, experienced guides and highly qualified trainers.  Each of them brings years of specialist climbing experience to the school, from long, remote adventure routes and the mysterious art of off-width climbing to delicate sandstone face climbing and powerful bouldering.

They are also Blue Mountains locals, rescue specialists, seasoned adventurers, storytellers and master tea-brewers.

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Hugh Ward

Instructor

Hugh was introduced to climbing by his parents, who were climbers back when ‘sex was safe and climbing was dangerous’ . . .

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Hugh Sutherland

Instructor

Hugh started climbing in 2010 in the Blue Mountains and has spent a lot of time seeking out more “adventurous routes”. . .

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Justine Jenkins

Instructor

Justine hails from Ventura, California and has travelled all over the world seeking climbing ending up here in the beautiful Blue Mountains. . .

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Sammy Zammit

Sammy Zammit

Instructor

Like so many climbers of his generation, it was that fateful scene of Sylvester Stallone cutting loose in the opening of Cliffhanger that ignited Sammy’s love for climbing. . .

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Marty Beare

Marty Beare

Instructor

Marty spent over 30 years as an outdoor instructor and mountain guide in New Zealand and Europe before recently shifting to Australia. Since his arrival here . . .

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Marty Doolan

Instructor

Marty has been guiding climbing since 2007 and has climbed extensively across Australia. His climbing adventures have also taken him to . . .

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Rob Hofman

Instructor

Rob started rockclimbing not long after he fininshed high school and the obsession lead him to abandon a career in engineering to play in the outdoors…

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Bridie Campbell

Instructor

With a flair for planning and making complicated tasks simple, Bridie is the reason the Climbing School runs as well as it does. The reason the books balance and that our insurers and land managers like us.

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Alex Forwell

Instructor

As a lanky, awkward teenage boy afraid of heights, Alex never would have imagined that he would one day be in his element on a cliff face. Now it is where he finds his focus and experiences constant growth and discovery . .

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Mieka De Marco

Instructor

Mieka grew up on the island of Malta. She’s had a love for the outdoors and adventure from a young age and loved exploring the sea and the cliffs around the island…

From time to time we also like to work with these talented individuals:

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Caro Ryan

Instructor

Not raised in an outdoorsy family, Caro discovered her inner Famous Five adventure gland in her early twenties when she joined the Sydney Bush Walkers Club and her life changed forever. Her new tribe introduced her to the possibilities and adventures that were available in the great Aussie bush, especially the ones that involved exploration, discovery and a good dose of, ‘I wonder where that goes?’ ……

Last updated: December 2023