12/10/2020

We asked Cardiff based International Mountain Leader Alan Ward about Aircraft Crash Sites in the Brecon Beacons. He’d recently visited three of these sites during a National Navigation Award Scheme – Gold Navigator Award Course. For the two-day course Alan trained and assessed four candidates who had previously passed their Bronze and Silver Navigator Awards. Several of these sites involve complex navigation processes to reach them across long sections of open mountain where there are few clearly defined paths. The…

19/06/2020

Cardiff based International Mountain Leader Alan Ward regularly travels to long haul destinations for trekking and expeditions. However, Alan has a Corporate Social Responsibility policy with his company – Bigfoot Services Limited. Through this policy, Alan gives his time freely to working with and training local mountain guides in far off destinations as they don’t have access to the training and certification we have here in the UK. Today we look at two recent adventure and training achievements in the…