BMC Specialist Rock Climbing Travel Insurance

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Specialist cover specifically designed for climbers

Our specialist rock policy covers:

Rock Climbing including sport, trad, multi-pitching and big walling

Trad and sport: single and multi-pitch with leader-placed protection including big walling and lead climbing all up to 5,000m

Bouldering and Soloing

Including Deep Water Soloing

Graded scrambles up to 5,000m

For rock climbing and bouldering and graded scrambling up to 5,000m.

Via Ferrata

For trekking above 5,000m, and most types of skiing, climbing and mountaineering on most peaks of up to 6,500m

All activities in our Travel and Trek policies

Including via ferrata, trekking up to 5,000m and winter mountain walking.

Comprehensive rock climbing insurance

The British Mountaineering Council offers wide-ranging specialist insurance cover for travellers, trekkers, hill walkers, climbers, mountaineers and skiers. For climbs and expeditions to inaccessible regions anywhere in the world, including unclimbed peaks, all our policies are designed by active experts and tailored for our members.

You benefit twice

All profits go back to the BMC to put towards projects that benefit hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers, including funneled into our environmental, access and sustainability campaigns.

When I broke my back after a fall whilst trad climbing in Utah, the first thing the local hospital asked me was ‘what’s your insurance cover like?’. I had my BMC travel insurance card, the hospital phoned up and checked and everything was fine. At that point they knew I was covered, and covered for the amount that allowed me to be taken to the spine unit in Colorado. Thanks to my BMC cover, the service was incredible. I was given a private room, treated with all bells and whistles. I can’t even imagine what the journey would have been like without it, or the cost. Ten days in hospital, scans, physiotherapy, medicine… I found out that a single paracetamol tablet I had taken had cost $50, so I really can’t imagine what the final bill would have read! BMC Travel Insurance gave me complete peace of mind at a time when I had no mind to spare.
Gilly McArthur
Climber and co-founder of Women's Trad Fest

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If we can’t offer you the travel insurance cover you want, or your premium is higher than you expected because you have serious medical conditions, you may be able to get help by accessing the MoneyHelper Travel Insurance Directory.

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