Having enjoyed the expeditions as part of my Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards at school, I completed my Summer ML training when I was a student at Aberystwyth University in the early 1980s. I have enjoyed exploring the UK mountains ever since and now have less than half of the Scottish munros left to complete ! I have enjoyed climbing in the Alps, starting with peaks like Aiguille d' Argentier, Aig. du Tour, the Midi-Plan traverse, Mt Blanc. In 1986 I climbed Mt Rainier (4392m), Washington, USA which was amazing. I have been a leader on several British Exploring Society Expeditions: Gipsdalen, Svalbard, 1993 for 7 weeks; Mestersvig/Staunings Alps, NE Greenland, 1998 for 6 weeks; Ebbadalen, Svalbard, 2001 for 4 weeks; Tasermiut Fjord, SW Greenland, 2009 for 5 weeks; Zara Valley, Ladakh 2013 for 5 weeks (climbed to 5890m twice). In 2007 I climbed to Kilmanjaro Summit (5895m). With my Liverpool John Moores University Expeditions to Ecrins, France and Morteratsch, Switzerland, I have climbed Domes de Niege des Ecrins (4015m), Pelvoux (3946m) and Pic Morteratsch (3751m) among others. I passed my Winter Mountain Leader award at Glenmore Lodge in 2012 and teach my students ice axe breaking, crampon work and snow belays each winter in the Cairngorms, Scotland. Avalanche awareness is a big part of our course and most years in Spring I do ski mountaineering tours with friends in northern Norway (Tromso/Lyngen past 3 years and planned again in April 2019, and in the French Alps, plus have done tours in Stubai in Austria, and Komna in Slovenia previously with the Eagle ski club). In 2019 I am starting up Snowdonia Walking Adventures with a walking base in my own 5 1/2 acre woodland between Beddgelert and Porthmadog (more details here: www.snowdonia-outdoors.co.uk).