The climbing instructors on our team generally come from a mountaineering background. As a result, they became sport climbing instructors after undergoing extensive and comprehensive mountaineering training. Nowadays, sport climbing has unfortunately become a fast-consumed activity. The rushed, ‘fast-food’ style training courses we frequently observe carry serious risks. As a team with over 20 years of instruction experience, we train our younger colleagues with this same deep-rooted discipline. Our core, unchanging principle is: ‘Serious climbing, serious fun.’
Metin Yılmaz, the founder and one of the instructors at our climbing center, decided to establish Turkey’s first private climbing center following a trip to Thailand. Until then, this sport was strictly tied to the long training processes of clubs and the Mountaineering Federation. He envisioned that, without compromising safety, it could be taught in a modular, short timeframe—much like scuba diving training.
Indeed, today mountaineering and sport climbing have completely diverged. You no longer need to pass through every stage of mountaineering to become a sport climber or instructor. We pioneered the sector by overcoming that period’s restrictions to found the first center of its kind in Olympos. Beyond just offering training, we launched professional guiding services for those with limited time who want to spend it on quality routes, climbers looking to improve their technique, families with children, and individuals with health conditions who cannot take unnecessary risks.
We are a group of people who have turned climbing into a lifestyle and a discipline. Like most climbers, we embrace a minimalist lifestyle in order to climb more and feel freer. All of our instructors work passionately at our center because climbing is at the very core of their lives. Beyond financial return, the courses we offer bring us deep personal fulfillment. Passing on our knowledge and sharing our experience is the ultimate common passion for all of us. Moving our lives to this region was driven by that same endless desire to climb. In short, you can think of all our services as being built on a ‘From climber, to climber’ philosophy.
Our team includes some instructor’s with high-altitude experience on 8,000-meter peaks, big wall achievements, and extensive traditional climbing backgrounds. We serve with a skilled team of both female and male instructors who are as experienced in winter mountaineering and other alpine disciplines as they are in sport climbing. For custom activity requests or further details about us, please feel free to reach out via our contact page.
