Trained Mountain Leader, Qualified Wilderness First Aider, Ex-Army and former MICE professional
Mike’s former career delivering high profile worldwide incentive travel events provides a unique perspective to organising events as well as being a founding member of an online mapping solution provider. He’s now keen to explore more and more hiking destinations closer to home and read maps rather than make them.
Having spent eleven years running up and down the Brecon Beacons and other parts of the UK and Europe, whilst in an elite unit of the British Army, Mike is quite used to navigating at night and training recruits in the Welsh mountains. He’s now often found teaching navigation on a hike or on dedicated days training. This combined with his Mountain Leader training at Plas Y Brenin (The National Mountain Centre) all help AAA to focus on safety through experience.
Mike had the pleasure of undertaking an extensive training course as a military medic that included practising his skills on the night shifts at the Royal London Hospital plus time on the ambulances and a short stint on the HEMs helicopter service. He’s also undertaken refresher courses and a ‘First on the scene to a motorbike crash’ course and the three-day REC wilderness first aid course at Plas Y Brenin (The National Mountain Centre) which he renews regularly. He’s always keen to get his first aid kit out, even if for other (non-AAA members) hikers in difficulty.
