Summer Mountain Leader Award

ML Training
Will arguably be one of the most educational mountain training courses you will ever experience. The award was set up in 1964 and since then the syllabus has developed to cope with modern day needs of the mountain leader.
Our course runs over six consecutive days which includes a combined day and evening training programme.
The course has well developed training materials and resources and all candidates have access to those resources during the course and via our own climbmts members log in site. The course resources we provide are unique to climbmts course candidates.
For an over view of a typical ML training week please click the skill feature tab below, in particular it contains an article by Simon Ingram Deputy Editor of Trail Magazine and ML candidate.
The scheme syllabus is located in the candidate logbook.

To access the training course you must first register with one of the home nation boards.
You will receive a unique candidate reference number, registration date and scheme logbook. Once you have this information and have the relevant mountain walking experience which is a minimum of 20 quality mountain days we can process your booking for the training course.
The main key training topics are;
Group management and responsibilities of the group leader
Navigation
Access and the environment
Hazards and emergency procedures
Equipment
Expedition skills
Weather
Background knowledge

Course ratio 1-6

If you need further assistance please call our bookings team on 01887 822 699

ML Assessment
The training course alone is not a qualification, this award is competence based therefore an assessment phase is required to pass and attain certification / qualification of the Summer Mountain Leader Award.
At climbmts the assessment course will last 5 consecutive days. The scheme syllabus is located in your candidate logbook. The key assessment topics are as above. The ML award qualifies the leader to lead mountain walks anywhere within the UK.

Course ratio 1-4

Course location
Aberfeldy, North Perthshire, Scotland. This stunning location has access to well over 30 Munros in the immediate area, our local village of Aberfeldy is surrounded by hills and forests and is well serviced with excellent amenities and transport services. Aberfeldy is truly the adventure capital of Scotland.

If you need further assistance please call our bookings team on 01887 822 699