In the age of social media, AI generated pictures and overwhelming choice how do you decide who you buy from? When you book a course or an experience how do you know that the person you are putting your trust in, is in fact qualified to do the job? We all connect with different people for a variety of reasons, and that's great, but it's also important that when you trust someone to take you out into the outdoors that you do some checks and make sure that person has in fact

As this is my first blog I thought I would start at the beginning, how did I end up doing what I think is the best job ever, taking lovely people to beautiful places and going for a swim. Well it all started on a mountain in Wales, well it started before that I suppose, but the idea came into my conciousness on that mountain, but I'll get to that. The mountain in question, little did I know when I was stood taking this photo the significance this particular mountain would en