As a keen rock climber the draw of the sea cliffs on Anglesey and the easy access cragging in Snowdonia make this a great place to live. I have climbed all over the world, highlights include; North face of the Eiger, Big Walls in Yosemite, 4000m summits in the Alps, adventure climbing in Jordan and expedition climbing in Kenya. I have spent numerous winters in Scotland enjoying the more remote regions of the north west highlands, as well as spending plenty of time in the Cairngorms and around Ben Nevis ice and mixed climbing and winter mountaineering. I have also spent time ski mountaineering in the Alps and Morocco!
I started out helping with school mountineering trips, whilst studying Geography at The University of Aberstwyth got more into climbing. At the end of the 3 years I headed to Eryri to be a centre assistant at Plas y Brenin, and my career as an instructor began. After 15 months being immersed in climbing & instructing I worked as a freelancer, then as an Instructor at Kent Mountain Centre, Llanberis, followed by Ogwen Cottage. With vital experience under my belt I headed back to Plas y Brenin as an instructor, then a senior instructor.
I progresses through the mountain training awards at the start of my career completeing Summer ML and SPA in my early twenties, MIA mid twenties and WMCI a couple of years later. I finally got round to completing the IML after I had started a family.