We often use various terms to describe similar activities, and AALA has addressed this with a list of ‘specified activities,’ which are essentially forms of licensable activities. For instance, activities like ‘coasteering,’ ‘gorge walking,’ ‘bouldering,’ or ‘scrambling’ are considered licensable only if they include ‘climbing’ as defined in regulation 2 of the HSE Licensable Activities.

If you deliver an activity labelled as ‘mountaineering’ that meets the definition of climbing under regulation 2, and the inspector is satisfied in all other respects, it can be listed on the licence as ‘mountaineering’.