Instructor directory
Are you looking for an instructor to further your skills after attending a festival? Then have a look through our directory of instructors. Everyone listed here is an experienced and qualified MCI level AMI member instructor. They have all attended Women’s Trad Festival a mentor at least once.We loved them, and so did our festival participants. So we we hope you find what you’re looking for amongst this group of skilled, supportive, warm and inclusive instructors.
North Wales
Rachael Crewesmith
Rachael can teach of plethora of outdoor mounting skills, including trad climbing, scrambling, and navigation. She specialises in confidence boosting and learn-to-trad.
rachcrewe.com | rachcrewe@hotmail.com
Alex Riley
Alex runs Moelwyn Mountineering which offer climbing instruction, guiding and coaching in Snowdonia and North Wales.
moelwynmountaineering.com | moelwynmountaineering@gmail.com
Emma Warren
Emma has a passion for teaching people how to have a safe and fun time in the mountains. She teaches navigation, rock climbing and scramble skills. Get in touch with her to arrange bespoke days out.
Angus Kille
Angus is an expert climber who teaches all areas of rock climbing, from beginner to performance level, including trad, big wall and fall practice.
Vicky Owen
Vicky offers bespoke courses in trad climbing, scrambling and navigation. She loves teaching people at all levels and is passionate about helping people have safe, fun adventures in the outdoors.
chockstonemountaineering.co.uk | vicky@chockstonemountaineering.co.uk
Peak District
Sally Lisle
Sally offers both short courses and long term mentoring to break barriers in your climbing journey.
www.faroutcoaching.com | sally@faroutcoaching.com
Nicola Taylor
Nicola offers bespoke climbing coaching to further develop your climbing skills.
climbmoverun.com | nicolatclimbing@gmail.com
Carole Feldman Whyley
Carole offers all types of rock climbing courses, from beginners to learn to lead as well as other mountaineering and navigation courses. She also offers personal development and leadership coaching and coach mentor training.
Caroline Tombs
Caroline offers rock climbing and mountaineering tuition and guiding.
Phil Baker
Phil can provide training and and assessments for the Mountain Training RCI award.
philbaker.org | info@philbaker.org
Lake District
Esther Foster
Esther offers expert coaching in trad, sport and bouldering, both indoors and outdoors. She can provide both 1:1 sessions and group workshops.
estherfoster.co.uk | ask@estherfoster.co.uk
Katie Mackay
Katie provides bespoke climbing and mountaineering tuition, from introductions to climbing outside for the first time to learning how to lead climb on multi-pitch crags.
ktclimbandmountaineering.com | katie-mo@hotmail.co.uk
Nick Cannon Jones
Nick offers bespoke climbing, scrambling and navigation courses in the Lake District as well as winter mountaineering in Scotland.
morethanmountains.co.uk | info@morethanmountains.co.uk
Cornwall
Jay Jackson
Jay offers performance coaching, trad, sport and indoor instruction, as well as professional mentoring services for adventurous activities instructors.
climbcornwall.com | info@climbcornwall.com
Scotland
Andy Cloquet
Andy is as professional Mountaineering Instructor & Teacher. He is based in Scotland and offers quality instruction and guiding throughout the UK.
outdooradventurescotland.com | andycloquet60@gmail.com
Simon Verspeek
Simon offers instruction and guiding in mountaineering and climbing in the Scottish Highlands, as well as in Snowdonia and the Peak District.
orange-mountaineering.com | simon@orange-mountaineering.com
Mike Mason
Based in the West Highlands of Scotland, Mike can offer all aspects of climbing and mountaineering instruction.
mmmountaineering.co.uk | michaelmasonmjm@gmail.com
Rebecca Coles
Rebecca offers climbing and mountaineering instruction and guiding. She runs winter climbing courses in Scotland, as well as trad climbing courses in the Peak District and multipitch climbing and scrambling in Snowdonia.
roammountains.co.uk | rebecca@roammountains.co.uk
London
Martina Spisiakova
Martina offers both outdoor and indoor climbing tuition. She teaches sport climbing as well as single and multi-pitch trad climbing. She can also deliver CWI and CWDI instructor courses.
climbingtuition.co.uk | m_spisiakova@yahoo.co.uk