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Mountain safety courses and events: risk assessments

Risk assessments are always carried out before any of our courses or events take place.

The forms downloadable from this page relate to risk assessments for our summer courses, winter courses and the winter lecture series.

Summer courses risk assessment

Winter courses rick assessment

Winter lectures risk assessment

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Mountaineering Scotland Participation Statement

Mountaineering Scotland recognises that climbing and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions and involvement.

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