Family Adventures in the Lakes: climbing, scrambling, abseil, navigate

See our scrambling page for more information on what this is!

"Our day with The Lakes Mountaineer was the best day of our holiday! We spent the day with Ben doing the Mighty Mountains family adventure, along with our 13- and 11-year-olds. Having never scrambled or abseiled before it was a great introduction to climbing, in the beautiful surroundings of the Lakes. The whole day was a fantastic challenge, completely tailored to our family. Ben was a brilliant guide not only giving us information about climbing but local history and geology too, I would thoroughly recommend booking an adventure with him." - Family of 4 after a Mighty-Mountains day, 2021.

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2022 prices held for 2024

1 Parent and 1 child: £170
Extra people: £25/person

For families or groups
Up to 8 people
Climb/abseil, treasure hunt
Recommended age 7+
Full day of activities

1 Parent and 1 child: £170
Extra people: £30/person

For families or groups
Up to 6 people
Climb, abseil and scramble
Recommended age 10+
Full day of activities

1 Parent and 1 child: £190

Parent and child scramble
2 people only
Grade 2 or 3 scrambles
Recommended age 11+
Full day in the hills

You'll meet your guide at 9.30. For Mini- and Mighty-Mountains, you'll return to the meeting point for a lunch break and then meet again for the afternoon activity. The guide will decide which way round to do the activities, dependent upon the weather and other factors. For Mega-Mountains, you'll be in the hills the whole day. All days will end at around 4.30.

Rock climbing and abseiling : a 10-minute walk to a crag where you'll get to try various rock climbs and an abseil or two.
Treasure hunt/navigation on Mini-mountains: this will be a slightly shorter session, so more time will be given over to rock climbing. A valley walk will give the opportunity to learn various skills with map and compass to help find the treasure - the adults will learn lots too!
Scrambling: Mega-mountain scrambling will take all day and will be in the hills away from your car for the whole time. On Mighty-mountains, this half-day activity involves a 15- to 20-minute walk to a scrambling area and slightly longer walk back downhill at the end.