About Us

Bren Whelan has spent twenty years rock climbing, hill walking and mountaineering throughout the world. He has climbed and worked in many countries including Russia, China, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, South America, Canada, Fiji, Bali, Borneo and Europe, including Austria, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Italy, Spain, Corsica and Switzerland.

Bren is a full Mountain Instructor Certificate (MIC), Mountain Instructor Award (MIA) and International Mountain Leader Award holder (IML). Check http://www.ami.org.uk/awards.htm and www.baiml.org for details.

Bren is the former Director of Mountaineering at Tiglin, Ireland’s National Mountain Centre and is an associate instructor at both Glenmore Lodge and Tollymore Mountain Centre (Scotland and Northern Ireland’s National Mountain Centres) and he is the former Mountaineering editor of Outsider, Ireland's Outdoor Magazine.

Bren is a fully insured and approved provider of BOS (The Irish Mountain Training Board & Mountaineering Council of Ireland) training and assessment courses. We also offer a full hill walking, rock climbing and mountain guiding service in Ireland & Scotland for clients who wish to learn skills free of the constraints of national governing body syllabus. Which in effect makes us Ireland's biggest and best one stop shop for all aspects of outdoor related training.

Professional memberships include:

Association of Mountaineering Instructors www.ami.org.uk

British Association of International Mountain Leaders www.baiml.org

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