About me
I found climbing at fourteen and never looked back. I fell in love with the adventure, athleticism and psychological challenge of climbing.
Since then climbing has been my work and my play — I spend months at a time climbing around the world, and when I’m back I bring other people into that world through my instructing and coaching work.
Over the past 20 years, I’ve climbed across the UK and Europe, and also in South America, India, China, USA and Canada. I’ve put up first ascents up to E9, climbed 8c+/9a, bouldered up to V12 and twice free-climbed El Capitan in Yosemite.
I live and work among the mountains of North Wales, based just outside Llanberis.
Trad climbing
High level onsights, many E9 ascents and new routes at the top end of British trad.
Sport climbing
Climbing at the highest levels internationally, including 9a sport and 8c+/9a slab climbing.
Big wall free climbing
Free climbing El Capitan in Yosemite — twice — and big multi-pitch routes around Europe and North America.
What I do
As a Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor, I work with everyone from beginners taking their first steps outdoors to ambitious climbers pushing their limits. I’m equally at home working on the movement and technical side of climbing as I am on the mental and performance side.
Much of my focus is on the psychological side of climbing — the mindset, the fear, the performance — through my work with Strong Mind Climbing, the mental training company I run with Hazel Findlay. I’m also an ICF trained conversational coach, which underpins my one-to-one coaching work.
My in-person work is based in and around North Wales and Snowdonia, though I also coach remotely worldwide by video call.