Training offer

Under the responsibility of a competent person, you can explore a cavity or a cliff on simple obstacles.

Targeted skills :
Name, position and adjust the individual equipment necessary to progress underground. Progress on varied situations (climbing, de-climbing). Identify a handrail and know how to move safely on it. Move on ropes when climbing and descending : identify a wellhead, put my descender and descend a small vertical, stop on a rope with a descender, cross a deviation on both the descent and the climb, cross a simple splitting on the descent as on the climb. Manage my emotions related to progress techniques. Respect the environment in which I progress.

Targeted audience :
Agents of structures managing protected natural areas or touristic caves, students, higher education teachers, researchers, technicians from design offices.

Terms of Access :
Sports practice desired

Contacts :

Judicaël Arnaud – Ardeche Speleology Departmental Commitee : cds07@wanadoo.fr – 0033/(0)6.37.12.85.40

Vincent Rouyer – CREPS Auvergne Rhône-Alpes: vincent.rouyer@creps-rhonealpes.sports.gouv.fr – 0033/(0)4.75.88.45.50

The certificate of federal initiator of speleology constitutes the first degree of teaching certificates of the French Federation of Speleology. The federal initiator of speleology is above all a club trainer, but is also empowered to supervise personal training internships, various teaching actions and specialized internships according to his skills and within the limits of his prerogatives within the FFS and within organizations outside the FFS in primary schools for class 2 cavities.

Minimum age 16 years old (with parental authorization, certificate issued at 18 years old)

Places :
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté/ Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes/ Provence-Alpes-CôteD’azur/ Occitanie/ Nouvelle Aquitaine