Accompagnateur part 4 – Mileau Estival

This course was only a week long and was pretty easy going compared to the one at the beginning of the summer. It was mainly to recap on what we had learnt over the summer and to kind of share the information around the rest of the group.
It was amazing to see how different everyone [...]

Accompagnateur part 3 – Connaissance Fondamentales

This was the first real course specifically aimed at the mountain leadership award. It seems strange that we have to wait 9 months from the entrance exam back in September to do this course. Obviously they leave some time to do the Tronc Commun but even so there seems to have been a lot of [...]

Accompagnateur part 2

After 7 weeks of intensive coursework studying biology, human science and law I have got through the second part of my quest to become an Accompagnateur en Moyenne Montagne, the French equivalent of an International Mountain Leader.
The course was very interesting in parts and I now know a lot more about the legal issues and [...]

Accompagnateur probatoire

The probatoire is over and the great news is that I passed. This means that I have been accepted onto the course to become an Accompagnateur en Moyenne Montagne, this is the same as the International Mountain Leader course in the UK. Over here the selection criteria is a bit harder.
The probatoire lasted two full [...]