Tim Emmett will give climbing tips at the event. Photo: © Tim Emmett

Climbers can pick up some tips from one of the UK’s top ice and rock climbers, while helping a mountain rescue team.

Top cragrat Tim Emmett will host a talk in Cardiff next month, with proceeds going to the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team.

Emmett, who tackled the Sròn Uladail overhang on Harris, live on television, with Dave MacLeod, is also a proponent of deep water soloing, using water below climbs as his only protection in case of a fall.

The event, on 21 January, will also include climbing clinics, and an auction of equipment, books, DVDs and t-shirts to raise cash for the volunteer rescuers.

Emmett has established himself on both rock and ice, regularly finishing within the top 10 at the World Ice Climbing Championships between 2002 and 2006.

In 2006, he joined Ian Parnell in the Himalaya for his first high-altitude ascent and managed to free climb a new route on the 6,840m (22,441ft) East Face on Kedar Dome leading to a nomination for a Piolet d’Or.

He also set up new routes in Mongolia, Cuba and Sri Lanka and recently has been focusing on his climbing, tackling some of the most technically difficult climbs in the UK and completing the most difficult ice-climb in the world – a 30m, 45-degree overhanging ice climb behind an unfrozen waterfall in British Columbia.

Tickets for the event at Boulders in Cardiff are on sale online and cost £12.