British Mountain Guides Training at Plas Y Brenin..

For the last few days I have been over at Plas Y Brenin on the British Mountain Guides Summer Two Training.

We spent four days covering some theoretical subjects such as the psychology of client care, the coaching process, guiding at altitude etc delivered by folk who are leaders in their respective fields. Thanks to Martin Chester, Tim Neill, Rob Spencer, John Cousins, Prof Lew Hardy, Tim Jepson and Steve Long.

The final day gave us an opportunity to put some our learning into context, by planning and delivering a days alpine preparation course for some aspiring alpinists. The aim being to incorporate some fairly advanced coaching models.

Andy Houseman is pictured above talking through glacier travel (thanks to Andy Townsend for the image).

The weather in Wales has been fine with a cold northerly wind. Despite this there have been plenty of folk out on the crag with 'Right Wall' E5 6a seeing an ascent from Dave Evans..