Courses

Mountain Leadership

Mountain Leadership

In this section you will find details on the following courses:

You will learn the most current and most upto date Mountain Leader skills to help you progress, from a full Mountain Instructors Certificate (MIC) holder, this is the highest instructional quailification available and it supercede's the - Mountain Leader Award Summer / Winter, the International Mountain Leader, Single Pitch Award, the Multi-Pitch Award and the Mountain Instructors Award.

Mountain Leader Award
This is the long standing award for leading groups in mountainous areas of Ireland and Britain under summer conditions. It excludes snow or ice covered terrain, planned use of a rope of roped scrambling activities. Candidates should have a considerable amount of personal experience before presenting themselves at a training course. Prospective candidates must have successfully completed a Mountain Skills Assessment, hold a valid First Aid Certificate and have registered with the Irish Mountain Training Board (BOS) phone the MCI on 01-625 1115.

Mountain Leader courses are directed by Bren Whelan, the former director of Mountaineering at Tiglin, The National Mountain Centre, Ireland. He is a FULL Mountain Instructor Certificate holder and as the main ML trainer and assessor at Tiglin over the last few years. He will be able to provide you with all the skills that you'll need to become a safe Mountain Leader!

Email: bren@mountaintraining.ie


Mountain Leader Training 2010

 

ML1 - Mourne Mountains - September 1st & 2nd - € 185 - Course Director - Bren Whelan - MIC

MLW - Mourne Mountains - September 1st to 5th - € 370 - Course Director - Bren Whelan - MIC

2011 

MLW - Mourne Mountains - 12th to 16th Jan. 2011 - € 370 - Course Director - Bren Whelan - MIC 

Email: bren@mountaintraining.ie

Mountain Leader Training (ML2) 3 days

During this course candidates will spend two days and one night on a camping expedition in high mountains. Topics covered include: expedition planning, remote camp craft, environmental impact, access and conservation, day and night navigation, emergency rope work, group management.

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Mountain Leader Training

Email: bren@mountaintraining.ie

Mountain Leader Assessment Preperation Courses

For many candidates there will be well over a year since the completion of training to attending an assessment.
During this time many bad habits can creep into how you deal with different elelments of the scheme.
Our preperation course will bring you rapidly back up to speed and polish your performance to assessment standard.

Day & Night Navigation Refresher

For many candidates this can be a difficult area to develop in isolation. Since training many bad habits can creep into how you go about travelling through the hills. Our preperation course will
rapidly bring you up to ML assessment standard and will provide extra navigation training for those who have drifted away from the scheme.

Email: bren@mountaintraining.ie

Check the latest ML Assessment Written Paper:

 


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