How noisy are climbing tree stands??????
For a newbie, as loud as can be made by one inexperienced and who never climbed a tree before. The swan dive from twenty feet can be real loud - all the way to the ground.
Any newbie, contemplating using a tree stand for hunting, I would recommend the following.
Read all the accompanying company information of safe use of the tree stand - and memorize it. Too much can be forgotten on the hunt, the first few times.
Use the tree stand for practice and not for hunting, the first couple of times. It's a little better for newbies to practice going up a tree, four or five feet and then coming down. Then repeat the process. Then, after a awhile practice at 20 feet.
It is a lot harder when you screw up the process at 20 or 25 feet, if you never have done it before.