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Professional Life as a Guide, Instructor and Coach
Mike has worked in the outdoors all his working life. Over the 25 years he has worked with a wide range of groups and clients. Starting off working in Mountaineering and Outdoor Consultant Management Centres mostly based around North Wales. Also in his early Professional life he worked for Private outdoor companies, Mountain Guides and in Local Education Outdoor centres with young people of all ages.
Mountaineering has always played a major part of Mike’s work whether it is guiding clients/groups up rock or ice climbs in Wales, Scotland in Winter, in the Alps or on Worldwide Expeditions. For 18 years he worked for Plas Y Brenin, The National Mountaineering Centre, 15 years of which as Senior Instructor and fronting up Rock Climbing (Head of Rock climbing) and the Mountain Instructor Certificate. Much of his work was Directing all of the National Governing Body courses, training trainers leaders and instructors. He has been a member of the Association of Mountain Instructors (AMI) since its creation.
As a IFMGA Mountain Guide he has worked extensively around the Alps mountaineering on foot and on skis, since 1993. For three years he partnered a small Guiding Company ‘Alpine Guides’ which he helped start. For the last 3 years he has run his own business Mountain Training and Guiding, based in the Alps. For the last 6 years he has been involved with training Mountain Guides to become fully qualified for the British Mountain Guides.