About

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Who we are

Adrian-

  • Holds MLTB (Summer) certificate and has attended the assessors workshop and the MLTB (Winter) training.
  • Holds current First Aid certificate and practices regularly.
  • Accredited Duke of Edinburghs Award expedition assessor for Bronze, Silver and Gold expeditions.
  • Has experience leading commercial walking groups for YHA and has assisted supervision of D of E expeditions and residential in Malawi. He has worked on personal development courses for World Challenge in the UK and Led on  their school expeditions to Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Kerala, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, Morocco, Nepal, Costa Rica, Swaziland, Mozambique, Croatia, Tanzania (including Zanzibar)  Malaysia, Nepal and Eswatini. He has also led school educational walks for Dartmoor National Park and Bellever Youth Hostel and several private schools.
  • Retired from  Dartmoor Rescue Group after over 30 years experience with them.
  • Assesses Mountain Leaders for Devon County Scouts
  • Member of the Mountain Leader Training Association.
  • Adrian has also acted as steersman on the 12 man canoes operated by Canoe Adventures on the tidal River Dart.
  • A Dartmoor National Park walking guide and founder member of “Moorland Guides”.
  • Has worked as staff on  both training and assessment courses for Hill and Moorland Leader, Mountain Leader (S) and Expedition Modules.

Adrian has climbed around 240 “Munro’s” in winter conditions and has experience of most National Parks in England and Wales. He has been hillwalking for over 50 years, having completed 5 Ten Tors events when young. He has been involved in training scouts for the Ten Tors event for most of the last 25 years. He has also completed 20 Long Distance Walkers Association 100 mile events and has also completed several of his own in the same format.

Suzanne-

  • Has completed MLTB (summer) training and holds the Hill and Moorland Leader award. She has also passed the Expedition Skills Module.
  • Past member of Dartmoor Rescue Group with over ten years experience.
  • Widely travelled having worked as tour guide in number of locations worldwide including 4 years in the Austrian ski resorts.
  • Holds a degree in Geography.
  • Works as an independent adventure travel consultant see www.travelcounsellors.com/suzanne.partridge 

Suzanne assists Adrian when dealing with larger groups.

Adrian and Suzanne have 6 adult children and live in South Devon.