About Us
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Alison Culshaw
Alison's interest in the outdoors began at an early age, ski racing for the national team led to a career in ski instruction and a degree in Outdoor Studies. This was followed by a placement on the prestigious Nightwatch scheme at the Scottish National Outdoor Centre where Alison was able to gain experience instructing a wide range of outdoor activities and rack up an impressive list of qualifications.
Currently Alison splits her time between winters in Chamonix where she works as a ski instructor and summers in the UK where she supervises and assesses Duke of Edinburgh's expeditions. She is a full member of AMI and holds the following qualifications; Mountain Instructor Award (MIA), Winter Mountain Leader (WML), International Mountain Leader (IML), Level 3 Open Canoe Coach.
Zoe Mclean
After pursuing a career in science she swapped her lab coat for a Gore-tex jacket and hasn't looked back.
Zoe has been managing companies in the outdoors for the past 7 years, including a very successful Gap Year programme. Zoe makes sure that everything runs smoothly, if she could dot every i twice she would. But this is not the limit of her talents; Zoe is a Mountain Leader and will also be delivering training and supervising our expeditions.
Tim Burton
Tim is a full time outdoor instructor and has worked with Duke of Edinburgh's Award groups for more than 10 years. Originally a Geography teacher, he is now a qualified International Mountain Leader and has led in the UK, Europe and beyond. He prides himself on training people in the skills to make their expedition fun and successful. He particularly likes cold places and recently confessed that he has spent more than four years living and working in the Arctic and Antarctic!
Tim likes chocolate brownies and penguins and dislikes polar bears and scary sheep with red dots on - ask him and he will tell you the story.
Environmental Policy
It is our aim to increase awareness of how beautiful and exciting the outdoors can be and through this, help to develop an awareness of environmental issues.
We also want to ensure that we minimise the negative impact that our company has on the environment by taking the following steps:
- As far as is practical we run a paperless office.
- All of our stationary is made from recycled paper or paper from sustainable forestry.
- As far as possible we will recycle all of our waste.
- We aim to minimise company travel.