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DIRECTORS |
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David Hughes OBE FRGS BSc. Director
of Peak Leaders. International mountaineering expedition leader. |
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Annie Hughes FRGS BA Dip PE. Teacher, Education Administrator,
Secretary Peak Leaders, BASI 3. She has taught all over the
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UK STAFF |
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Lorna
Keighren - Operations Manager
Spent 2 years working in the town of Aosta in the Italian Alps before joining the Peak Leaders team. Away from the PL office she dabbles in skiing, snowboarding and mountain biking. |
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Andrew (Dahj) Purvis -
New Zealand/Australia.
Full-cert snowboard instructor. Has spent 15 seasons on a snowboard. Director of Snowboard School in Andorra. |
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Camilla Stoddart - Photographer and film maker. BA Hons from St Martins College of Art in London. She now works freelance and can be found flitting between Wanaka, New Zealand and Verbier, Switzerland, behind a camera of some description. www.whiteroompictures.com
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Marianne Hazlewood
Graphic designer for web & print, HND from Edinburgh's Telford College in Graphic & Digital Design, BA Hons in Hospitality & Catering Management with Tourism. When not designing, she likes to paint or illustrate and she enjoys going to see live bands and dancing.
www.littleangel-design.co.uk
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Angela Purdon - Schools & University liaison
She is an experienced, current school & uni parent who offers first hand advice using her valuable knowledge and insight of Course locations and world wide travel. |
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Barbara Wardlaw - Finance
When not accounting for her four teenage children she can be found in the Peak Leaders office dealing with all your financial queries. Enjoys swimming, fishing and supporting her local youth rugby team.
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Mike Beale - Scottish Schools Liaison
Recently retired Headmaster of Craigclowan School and former Chair of the Independent Association of Prep Schools. Mike has a love for skiing, travel, New Zealand & wine...ideally all at the same time! |
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John Christie - English & Welsh Schools Liaison.
Recently retired, John draws on his skiing and ski-mountaineering experience to promote Peak Leaders’ courses in English and Welsh schools. |
COURSE MENTORS |
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Tug Wilson - Whistler
Ex Royal Navy Engineer with a sports and fitness background. A qualified BASI Level 2 Alpine Ski Instructor with aspirations to gain the same award in Telemarking. Has led numerous military ski mountaineering expeditions to the Alps as well as summer trekking in Europe, United States, South Africa and notably the Himalayas to Everest Base Camp. |
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Ed Cornfield - Banff
BA (Hons) Adventure Tourism Management - An Adventure Guide, Leadership Coach and Professional Kayaker who spends much of the summer in Norway running his own company. Expeditions have taken him from 1st descents at 5000m in Tibet, to the deep canyons of the Zambezi in Africa. |
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Ed Archer - Argentina
Health and Fitness Specialist, Snowboard Instructor; Premier Rugby and Formula 1 Fitness Coach. |
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Mhairi Hughes - Verbier
A snowboard instructor, Mhairi was president of Glasgow Uni Snowsports Club and worked as a recruitment manager in London for three years before joining the family business. Pronounced 'Vari' to those non-gaelic speakers! |
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Claire Hughes - Sponsored Rider
Now doing her 6th ski season. Recently winning 2 bronze medal in the Brits 08. Previously, Claire won
Dark Summer’s ‘It’s A Girl Thing’ Competition and was5th placed skier in the New Zealand Big Mountain Competition. While at Glasgow Uni she was President of the Ski & Snowboard Club and has used her CSIA Level 2 instructor qualification to teach skiing in Italy, Andorra & New Zealand. |
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Kaspar Stetler - Zermatt
BASI and Swiss certified Snowboard Instructor with mountain experience from many continents. When I am not skiing or Snowboarding I can be found climbing or mountaineering somewhere in the Alps.
BASI qualified through the Peak Leaders programme in Argentina I kept on instructing next to studies in Tourism and Subofficer school. |
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PATRONS |
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Ivar Hellberg OBE FRGS Accomplished Himalayan mountaineer, Co - Patron of Peak Leaders. |
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Lorimer Gray Executive Director Abernethy Trust Outdoor Centres www.abernethytrust.org.uk,
Co - Patron of Peak Leaders. |
COURSE LEADERS |
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Mercedes Sahores (Tety) An ADIDE ski instructor teaching & working with Ivan in Argentina. Tety has a degree in Biology from CAECE University, Buenos Aires. When she is not skiing, Tety is a field project officer working with guanacos in the wild.
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Ivan Bonacalza Director Peak Leaders' Argentine course, Level 4 instructor, Mountain Guide, Mountain Rescue Team member, Ex Olympian, Race coach. |
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Stu Rea Course leader, NZSIA Examiner / NZSIA Freestyle Coach, Head Examiner for California and Technical Director for Park City, and USSA Coach, Previous Director of Snowboarding for NZSki. |
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Colin Borrow CSIA level
4, CASI level 3. Peak Leaders’ Technical
Director, Assistant Director Snowsports Sunshine
Village, Alberta, Canada. |
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Alvar Puente - Argentina Course co-leader & translator, Mountain Rescue Team member, Graduate of the University of Rio Negro. |
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Julian Griffiths:
Director of European Snowsport & BASI trainer. Julian draws on 22 Seasons teaching experience to help coordinate the Peak Leaders training program in Verbier.
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