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Lee Maddison 188502
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Membership Mountain Training Association

Membership Type Qualified Member

Membership Number 188502

Renewal Date 01/08/2025

Phone 07472919049

Email leemaddison1@outlook.com

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I've just recently passed my ML assessment in Sept 2017 during a memorable and inspiring week on the Isle of Rum.
I decided to train as a Mountain Leader with the aim of tying it in with my career as a singer songwriter with the idea of reducing my hours working as a registered mental health nurse for the NHS. However I do intend to approach my NHS Trust to talk about getting people with mental health problems in the hills.
My earliest memory of the great outdoors is via frequent visits to my grand-parent’s home in Horsforth near Leeds from our home in Hartlepool in the North East. At the end of the Cul-de-sac, where my grand-parents lived, was a narrow lane that led to a few acres of old mature deciduous woods with the woodland floor being strewn with great moss covered rocks - a magical sylvan sensory playground of earth, roots and greenery – I remember rubbing my cheek up against that damp moss - I never wanted to leave. That small piece of woodland remains the most vivid, enduring and warmest memory of my childhood, and my gateway to a life-long relationship with the natural world. I still get that same restorative feeling.
Now, as an ML, I hope to inspire people to capture that same feeling I described above - to share that wow! feeling that I get everytime I stand above a cloud inversion, see the rising sun light up a ridge, see the reflection of the moon in a tarn during a wild camp or here the plaintive mewing of a buzzard echoing around a remote corrie.

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