We first met Alice Kerr when she came to us for her Single Pitch Award assessment in October 2016. She has since gone on to achieve the Mountaineering Instructor Award, and she works as a freelance outdoor instructor. She is also a keen long-distance runner.

I met Claire Hendrickse (then Claire Llewellyn) and her future husband David when I worked at YMCA Lakeside in April 1988. She is a qualified primary teacher currently working as a freelance outdoor instructor. She holds qualifications across all the outdoor disciplines: Mountain Leader, Single Pitch Award, Level 2 Canoe and Kayak, Level 2 Cave Leader, Level 2 Powerboat, Trail Bike Leader training,  and Archery Instructor.

Alan Kimber is well-known in the world of mountain guiding. He is an IFMGA Guide, and he started up and ran West Coast Mountain Guides for 25 years. With his wife Sue he set up the family business of self-catering accommodation at Calluna, Fort William.

Rhiannon Pritchard has a degree in Outdoor Leadership from the University of Cumbria. She holds the Mountain Leader Award, the Single Pitch Award, and she is a Local Cave & Mine Leader. She is an Arctic Nature Guide, and she currently lives in the north of Scotland, where she is also trying to be an academic.