Scheme Details
- Awarding Body
- Mountain Training
- Scheme
- Hill and Moorland Leader
- Course
- Assessment
- Type
- Assessment
Award Description
The Hill and Moorland Leader award is designed for people who want to lead groups in the hill and moorland areas of the UK and Ireland. This award is a wonderful opportunity to learn the leadership skills required to feel confident about taking people out walking. As you may have guessed from the descriptive title of this award, it focuses on non-mountainous terrain.
About
Your opportunity to become a fully qualified Hill & Moorland Leader, by doing your HML assessment with Graham Uney Mountaineering.
The Syllabus
The Hill and Moorland Leader Award training covers the following subjects:
- Walking and group management
- Navigation
- Hazards and emergency procedures
- Equipment
- Responsibilities of the leader
- Group management
- Access, conservation, and environmental knowledge
- Weather
- Background Knowledge
The full syllabus and Scheme Handbook can be viewed on the Mountain Training website here
Our Hill and Moorland Leader Award courses are all run with Graham Uney as Course Director. Our assessment courses run over 3 days.
How Do I Join?
First of all, you must be a member of a mountaineering council to enter the Hill and Moorland Leader Scheme, so that will be either the BMC, Mountaineering Scotland, or Mountaineering Ireland. You can join one of these during the registration process with Mountain Training.
You must then register for this award with Mountain Training before you can take part in the training course. Registration costs £49 – payable to Mountain Training upon registering. This gives you access to the superb DLOG online logbook, and a copy of the British Mountaineering Council’s ‘Safety on Mountains’ booklet. You must then personally undertake and log an absolute minimum of 20 varied hillwalking days in suitable terrain You will then be eligible to attend the Hill and Moorland Leader Award training course.
After attending the Hill and Moorland Leader award training course, you then need to undertake a consolidation period (you'll be advised about this during the debrief session at the end of your training course) and complete an appropriate First Aid course, before you can attend this Hill and Moorland Leader Award assessment course.
Where And When
- Start
- 07/03/2025 09:00
- End
- 09/03/2025 17:00
- Total Days
- 3
- Maximum Bookings
- 4
- Bookings
- 4
- Venue
- Shap Fells and the Howgills
- Town
- Penrith
- County
- Cumbria
- Postcode
- CA10 2RW
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 54.53759
- Longitude
- -2.76328
Provider
- Name
- Graham Uney Mountaineering
- Phone
- 07498 058912
- Website
- Booking/Details