HUNTER

Outdoor Training

The Instructors, Specialists, and Associates  who work with Hunter

Qualifications & Experience

 Sam Howard & Adam Dawson

Sam : Experience in Norway, Israel's Negev Desert, and the Nepal Himalaya, along with serious multi ascents of the Welsh 3000s, regular annual winter climbing in The Cairngorms, traversing/instructing across Dartmoor's north-to-south route, Peak District, Lake District, and many 'lowland' areas has given Sam a thorough grounding in expedition management. He is formerly a professional mountaineering equipment specialist working with 'Blacks' and (latterly a ski/ski boot/bindings fitter and mountain equipment retailer with) 'Snow & Rock'.  Extremely fit, and with a vast understanding of specialist outdoor equipment he has successfully completed a secondment with Royal Marines Commando Training (2008). Sam is a Senior Instructor with Hunter, First Aid REC qualified, a qualified expedition leader, and a senior member of the Survival Training Team. MLTE Registered, he has undertaken Plas y Brenin's WGLA Training course.

Adam : cut his teeth as a leader with the Scout movement becoming an Explorer Leader. He was paired up with Sam for an NVQ expedition leaders qual. and their partnership took off from there. Adam has an inordinate amount of outdoor leadership experience for someone of his age and has walked, trekked, and climbed in all major upland areas of the UK, climbed the Welsh 3000s, undertaken several Cairngorms expeditions - backpacking in winter conditions, plus separate winter mountaineering in the Cairngorms, the complete traverse of the Black Cuillins, rock climbing on Skye, Scottish solo mountaineering, and done the complete Everest Base Camp trek, with Sam - on foot - and climbed Kallipatthar. He is First Aid trained, and has successfully completed the Mountain Leader (Training) week.

Mark Burbidge: a teacher with unique and specialist skills in classroom based problem solving and teamwork challenges. His methods and strategies of delivery are very much in vogue in what Hunter is working on and we are privileged to have Mark as one of our Associates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Burbidge (above) 

Mark Beaumont is an all-round outdoorsman, with experience in many fields including expedition work in Norway, leading youth and schools study courses across Dartmoor, long distance overlanding, Scouting, being being a retired police dog-handler, and consumate Land Rover nut (1954 Series I 86", 1962 Series IIa 88")....as well as being a world authority on the military history of 12th Lancers. Currently with Hunter as a Logistics honcho.

 

Mark Beaumont (above)

Other Instructors, Specialists, and Associates include Caroline Gunn, Sean Cripps, Joanne Walpole, & David Brend.