$260 for the course
Includes entry, ropes and belay devices; bring your own lead harness and HMS karabiner. Private lead courses can be arranged.
Two mornings on lead climbing and lead belaying for climbers comfortable top-roping around grade 15 to 16, followed by the free lead assessment. Ages 16 to 17 by arrangement.
As Hardrock Melbourne CBD lists it. Times and prices change, so check with the wall before you book. Something wrong? Let us know.
Tuesdays 18:00 and 19:00Improvers, Advanced
Free with entry
A written test and a practical check of lead climbing and belaying for experienced leaders, who get a lead pass to clip to their harness. Bring a partner, your own harness, rope and karabiner.
Free with entry
On your first visit, during opening hours15 to 30 minutesBeginners
Free with entry
Every first-time visitor is shown how to use the harness, ropes and auto-belays and assessed before climbing on their own. Belayers must be 11 or older.
Free with entry
Selected Sundays 08:30–11:002½ hoursBeginners
$130 for the course
An instructor teaches the basics of climbing and belaying in a group of six to twelve, with speed-climbing challenges and an abseil from the 16-metre pinnacle.
$130 for the course
Saturdays 08:00–09:30 and 09:30–11:00, Sundays 09:15–10:451½ hours a weekBeginners, Improvers
$29 a week
A weekly coached session where children learn climbing movement through games, with free climbing at Hardrock during opening hours. New members join at the start and middle of each school term, after a trial session.
$29 a week
Saturdays 11:00–12:30, Sundays 10:45–12:151½ hours a weekImprovers
$33 a week
By invitation, for juniors from FUNdamentals who are ready for a faster-paced team session, bridging the gap to the youth club.
$33 a week
Tuesdays 18:15–20:15, Saturdays 13:45–15:452 hours a weekImprovers, Advanced
$33 a week
By invitation from the development groups: more advanced skills, with the option to learn to lead and be assessed for an in-class lead pass.
$33 a week
Tuesdays 16:15–18:15, Saturdays 11:45–13:452 hours a weekBeginners, Improvers
$33 a week
Weekly coached sessions for under-18s of any experience, with climbing games and goal-setting through the term. New members join at the start and middle of each term.
$33 a week
Tuesdays 17:00–20:003 hours a weekAdvanced
$33 a week
By invitation only: training for young climbers working towards performance and competition climbing.
$33 a week
School holidays, 09:00–13:00 (next on 20 and 21 January 2027)1 or 2 daysBeginners, Improvers, Advanced
$80 a day
Holiday mornings of belay training, technique coaching, knot tying, team games and free climbing for 11 to 17 year olds of any experience. Bring snacks and water; gear is provided.
$80 a day
By arrangement during opening hours1 to 2 hoursImprovers, Advanced
$99 an hour
One-to-one coaching, or with one or two friends, for climbers who have climbed before and want to work on a particular part of their climbing. Book at least two weeks ahead.
$99 an hour
Weekend mornings 08:30–11:00, on dates posted on the booking portal2 sessions of 2.5 hoursImprovers
Cliffhanger Climbing Gym, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia12 km away
One course over two mornings that teaches the basics of lead climbing and lead belaying indoors, and everything you need to go on to Cliffhanger's lead assessment.
Starts monthly; next on Mondays 18:30–21:30 from 9 November or Saturdays 09:00–12:00 from 14 November3 weekly sessions of 3 hoursImprovers
$560 for the course
Urban Climb Blackburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia17 km away
Teaches top-rope climbers to lead climb and lead belay, with an assessment in the third session; passing earns an Urban Climb lead pass for every Urban Climb gym. Climbers should manage grade 18 on top rope.
$560 for the course
Most months over two evenings; next on 18 and 19 November 2026, 18:30–20:002 evenings of about 90 minutesImprovers
$220 for the course
Bayside Rock, Frankston, Victoria, Australia37 km away
Two evenings on tying in, clipping, falling and lead belaying with an Edelrid Eddy, for confident top-rope climbers and belayers. Lead assessments are booked separately afterwards.
$220 for the course