Mountaineering Qualifications

 

I have been successfully assessed in the British Mountaineering Council,
Mountain Leader Training Board scheme - Summer Training and Assessment
and Rock Climbing & Abseiling Supervisor.

To find out more about mountaineering qualifications visit the web site

MLTB ~ Mountain Leader Training Board

or for details of my mountaineering qualifications are found below

My training exploits have been included on various training apges on this site
with some pictures of young people training over the last few years.
My personal training includes the following for recognised qualifications :

Feb.
1989.		 M. L. T. B.
(Summer Training)		 British Mountaineering Council Longtown Outdoor
Education Centre.
Feb.
1991.		 M. L. T. B.
(Summer Assessment)		 British Mountaineering Council Longtown Outdoor
Education Centre
Nov.
1992.		 Dr. Iuan Jones
First Aid In Mountaineering		 St John's
Ambulance.		 Bangor Branch, St. John's Ambulance.
Oct.
1992.		 Mountain Rescue
and First Aid		 Plas Y Brennin
In House
Training course		 Plas Y Brennin.
North Wales
Oct.
1992.		 Orienteering
Instructor Award.
(Training)		 British Orienteering Federation Plas Y Brennin.
North Wales
Feb.
1993.		 M. L. T. B.
(Winter Training)		 British Mountaineering Council Glendora Lodge,
Aviemore.
Feb.
1993.		 Avalanche Awareness British Avalanche
Association.		 Glenmore Lodge,
Aviemore.
June
1993.		 M. L. T. B.
Single Pitch S. Award (Training)		 British Mountaineering Council. Whitehall Outdoor Education Centre, Buxton.
Oct.
1994.		 M. L. T. B.
Single Pitch S. Award (Assessment)		 British Mountaineering Council Whitehall Outdoor Education Centre, Buxton.
June
1996.		 Orienteering
Teacher Leader Award.
(Assessment)		 British Orienteering Federation Grendon Hall Centre,
Northamptonshire
Oct.
1996.		 Orienteering
Instructor Award
(Assessment)		 British Orienteering Federation Grendon Hall Centre,
Northamptonshire

  

Some pictures of my Winter ML training in the Cairngorms can be found click here

or more pictures of my Summer ML training click here

 

Pictures taken
during my
SUMMER
Mountain Leader Training		 read.jpg (8231 bytes)
ml-camp.jpg (10944 bytes) English / Welsh Borders
Longtown Outdoor Education Centre

more ML Summer pictures
ml-2.jpg (14924 bytes) ml-1.jpg (16247 bytes)

 

And
Out of interest

 


Summary of MLTB
Summer log between Training and Assessment

Feb 1989 ~ Feb 1992

Log Book Days In Mountains
Days in mountain areas with at least one peak of 2000 ft

37
Days in Alps on mountains

10
Days Caving where entrances needed to be found over 2000 ft

3
Nights bivving with groups in mountain areas

2
Night Ascents (Snowdon an new years eve)

1
Peaks Ascended
Snowdonia

74
Lake District

17
South Wales

3
Scotland

3
Derbyshire Peak District

2
Yorkshire Dales

1
Alps

2
Extra Related Activities
Days spent walking in wild country & mountain areas where 2000 ft not reached

22
Days spent rock climbing (in all UK areas including mountains & Sea cliffs)

34
Days spent rock climbing in the Alps

10
Climbing walls instructing groups

24
Ski-ing in mountainous areas

6

Even my maths is not good enough
to work out how much time was left for any thing else

 

Mountaincraft
and
Leadership

by
Eric Langmuir

Third Edition

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click here to link to mountaineering
book  page		 Successful mountaineering means learning the "theory" as well as the practical, especially if you wish to get qualifications such as the Mountain Leader Award.
MLTBLOGO.GIF (5577 bytes) Mountaincraft and Leadership is the text book for the MLTB scheme and as such is obviously very comprehensive

Remember that experience in a mountain situation counts for so much, so don't rely on reading alone.

Get a first aid qualification, you will not pass
MLTB or SPA without a current first aid certificate.

 

 

climbing qualifications

my Rock Climbing Qualification is
the British Mountaineering Council
Single Pitch Supervisor Award
or SPSA for short
(its now had the supervisor dropped and is the SPA but obviously the old name means the award I hold is still valid)

Peak-climb-01.jpg (18854 bytes)
I climbed at Burbage North during
my SPSA assessment
(although this picture of Burbage North
was taken more recently)

techniques used

the system used here is a "top rope"
this allows young people to be belayed from above - thus safely

To gain maximum benefit
A) you see the young person climbing,
B) next another person Belays  (in direct charge of the climber)
C) another person acts as safety back up on the belay rope

therefore three people are directly gaining experience in safe climbing techniques

the rest of the group are at a safe distance from the rock face. (just out of view top left)

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you will see two anchor points at the top
therefore allowing a back-up in the event of equipment failure

everyone MUST wear a helmet and everything is double checked before use