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Progress on rope level 1 (module under development)
Speleology French Federation
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
Inter-university Diploma (under development) Management and valorization of underground environments and natural cavities
Savoie Mont Blanc University
Place : Ardèche
Duration: 140 hrs (common core + 1 specialty),
210h (core course + 2 specialties)
Core : 2 blocks of skills of 5 days each
Specialties : 2 skill blocks of 5 days each per specialty
Frequency : Annual. Launch of the training in 2021. Possibility of doing it over 2 years (especially with the aim of following the 2 specialties)
Objectives : complete your knowledge of underground environments and learn how to use them to improve conservation, management practices and methods of developing underground environments and heritage.
Core curriculum : appropriating knowledge of underground environments and their links with the outside (environment, uses, development), becoming familiar with the issues of heritage value assessment, management and development, mediation of underground environments and karst landscapes.
Specialties :
- « Tourism, mediation and interpretation of underground and karst landscapes ».
- « Conservation and management of underground environments and heritage ».
Targeted audience :
Agents of structures managing protected natural areas or touristic caves, supervisors and sports monitors, consultants and design offices dealing with underground environments.
Terms of Access :
Bac + 2 or equivalent and / or experience in the field of caves and underground environments – APEPL possible for candidates holding the bac (ALevel).