MountainPlan.com

MountainPlan is a small guiding and instruction company based in the Scottish Highlands. We offer tailored courses to meet your requirements and aspirations. Whatever you want to do in the mountains, whether it's walking up Scafell or climbing Point Five Gully we will help you to your personal summit.

MountainPlan was started in late 2006. Our instructors are all highly experienced and fully qualified members of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors.

I have been climbing and mountaineering since a young age as I was lucky enough to have very active parents. My climbing and mountaineering career has led me to have amazing experiences all over the world. My rock climbing began on the sandstone crags of southern England as young boy and during my childhood many weekends where spent in the lakes with lots of hill walking and multi pitch climbing and the school holidays where spent touring the Alps walking and climbing. My interests progressed to the winter scene where I have spent seven season’s winter climbing, mountaineering and working. I have also spent a lot of time up to five months in the Alps climbing in the Chamonix area, the Ecrins, the Italian Dolomites, Swiss Urner and Oberland Alps and also the Austrian Venedigar, Otztal, and Stubai Alps. My rock climbing has also taken me to the USA climbing in the Yosemite Valley and also Tuolumne high sierras area.

Expedition work has also taken me to East Africa (Kilimanjaro), India and Peru.

The work that I do now with MountainPlan is to share those experiences and hand on some of the skills that I have learnt along the way to those people who have a passion and drive to get out there and have their own experiences in the worlds mountain ranges.

These are some of the people that we may use during the busy periods they are both qualified and very experienced and are among the best in the business...

Andy is an MIC with huge amounts of experience of climbing on rock, ice and alpine big walls. He spends his year guiding and instructing the year round working in Scotland over the winter and in the Lakes and North Wales in the summer months. During his free time he tries to get away on as many trips as possible. He has climbed big routes in the Alps such as the American Direct on the Dru and the North face of the Matterhorn. He has climbed the Compressor Route on Cerro Tore and made an attempt on the north face of Machermo Peak in Nepal. Having climbed with Andy in Yosemite Valley and elsewhere I can vouch that you would have a safe journey, fun and informative journey with him! Andy also heads up our performance winter climbing courses you can see his resume in that area on the winter page.

Vic is heading up the Alpine trekking side of things. She holds the International Mountain Leader award, the Winter ML, MIA and MIC training. She has a huge passion for the mountains she has spent many winters in highlands guiding instructing and bagging climbs. She has also spent a lot of time based in North Wales, rock climbing and working in and around one of the hubs of British rock climbing, Llanberis. She is also one of the climbers that fronts the British Mountaineering Councils Alpine skills video. Having climbed in summer and winter with Vic I know that you would have a safe, fun and informative experience.