Adventure Skills Courses

Want to take up climbing, hiking or paddling? Go from sport climber to trad climber? Want to get off the footpaths and experience those classic scramble routes on Table Mountain and elsewhere? Want to take the family paddling but worried about keeping them safe?

We’ll show you how. And you’ll have lost of fun learning with us. Come get an adventure education on one of our recreational courses. Our courses are designed to be practical, interactive and fun. We have the best instructors in the business who are there to make sure you learn the skills you need and achieve your goals.

To qualify as a legal adventure guide you will require various technical skills and be certified as competent in those skills. This training and certification goes hand-in-hand with your foundation guiding qualification to give you a registered scope of practice.

Venture Forth has been training technical adventure guides for over 28 years and we have trained more guides than anyone else in Africa. Our instructors run learner-centred courses focused on your development and we go all-out to help you be the best guide you can be.

Become a skilled second on multi-pitch traditional rock climbs. Learn how to follow a trad leader up classic lines.

Learn to safely climb all the scrambling classics using traditional ropework techniques to keep you and your party safe.