Guiding & Mentoring – Partners In Climb

Work and family commitments limiting your climbing time, old climbing buddies taking up golf or cycling? If you are a seasoned and enthusiastic climber or mountaineer you will know the feeling. It is exactly the same scenario for a guide, we need a climbing partner.

If you join me on one of my courses or guided days and enjoy the climbing, learning, companionship and friendly banter, then you are welcome to come back for more. The climbing partnership is one of the uniquely special aspects of climbing. Sustaining these partnerships gets more challenging as the years pass and maintaining our involvement in the sport and the opportunity to get out and seize the day, especially in cracking weather spells, is never that simple.

Nothing beats climbing on Lakeland Mountain crags on a warm summer day. An autumnal climbing getaway to the gritstone edges of the Peak District. A crossing of the magnificent Skye Ridge in spring.

Climbing together becomes intuitive and the building up of familiarity reduces apprehension and increases your performance levels and mental capacity to take on and embrace challenges.

You will learn new skills and get the routes in. It is great for me as the guide to go to unfamiliar places as well as to old haunts. It adds to your own personal risk assessment and judgement skills participating in the guides’ thought processes and decision-making when operating “on sight ” so to speak.

Constant dynamic judgement and decision-making are key factors when climbing and mountaineering in the Alps. A longer-term climbing and mentoring partnership here in the UK can be just the beginning of a climbing journey of discovery with the opportunity to extend and develop your aspirational horizons to include alpine climbing and mountaineering. Also have a look at Alp related info here Alpine Preparation and Guided Alpine Climbing & Mountaineering.

Do not hesitate to contact me to find out more. There are no egos involved here, in fact it works both ways. If your aspirations are too hard core for me I’m happy to recommend a fellow colleague of the British Association of Mountain Guides!