Phone 016637423676
Email rowanho@dircon.co.uk
International Mountain Leader | 02/03/2018 | ||
Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor | 13/10/1995 | ||
Winter Mountain Leader | 07/04/1988 | ||
Mountain Leader | 01/12/1985 |
How to interpret weather, snow and avalanche bulletin information for safer travel in winter mountains | 08/10/2023 | 0.50 | |
Transceiver use, limitations and issues, along with probing strategies for avalanche rescue | 07/10/2023 | 1.00 | |
03. GPS Technology Update for IMLs | 25/11/2022 | 0.50 | |
Gold NNAS navigation workshop | 17/11/2022 | 0.50 | |
Steep Ground Skills for Mountain Leaders | 08/11/2022 | 1.00 |
I started outdoor adventures whilst still at school with hillwalks on the rough Pennine moors in any weather and odd school trips away with a keen teacher. After university, I really got into rock climbing and gained lots of experience on Peak District gritstone and limestone as well as going further afield. My Alpine mountaineering also took off and I was ambitious in my objectives, with the quality of the route more important than the tick for the height. I built up to some serious big routes on Alpine rock, with the Badile Cassin route a real highlight as well as many others. Being a keen skier, I got into ski-mountaineering by joining the ESC and soon joined their touring committee. My preference is for lesser-known areas and I have done complete traverses of Switzerland and the Pyrenees over a number of seasons as well as visiting some more unusual regions such as Corsica. I have led school expeditions to India, Pakistan, Bolivia and Morocco, each time summiting a big mountain, sometimes over 6000m and as a senior teacher in a large school with an outdoor activities pedigree, I lead lots of trips regularly, including winter expeditions to Scotland where we have snow-holed in the Cairngorms and trekked over the big mountains of the west coast.