Sam Leary Mountaineering/ Leading Edge
About Sam Leary Mountaineering/ Leading Edge
For us being in the mountains is all about having a great time, in a wonderful place and sharing that with others. If your interested in the outdoors on any level and are wanting to develop your skills and /or confidence Leading Edge can definitely help.
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Introduction to Navigation course 6th - 7th October in Snowdonia. As the nights start to draw in and we leave summer behind, knowing now to navigate in the hills and mountains becomes a key skill. This course will take you through all the important techniques you need, leaving you more competent and confident off the beaten track. Super qualified, experienced and super friendly instruction. http://leadingedge-mountain.co.uk/navigat ion.html or info@leadingedge-mountain.co.uk for more details.
I could watch this all day😃
Chris revelling in the peace and tranquillity of climbing on the Llangollen escarpment. Great venue for this time of year and the newer Clwyd Rock Fax is great. Suspect wall is pretty polished but if you can be bothered to walk the 2mins further along the rock is rough and the routes are good if sometimes with spaced bolts. @jaggedglobe Association of Mountaineering Instructors
Chris styling his way up an airy slate arête, enjoying the crisp autumn conditions in snowdonia. @jaggedglobe Association of Mountaineering Instructors Snowdonia National Park
Top effort Mick!
Chris styling his way up the superbly named Long Legged Lizard from Liverpool. This excellent wee route requires really thoughtful climbing and delicate shifts of balance and weight. Chris did a grand job of tip toeing his way up it. We watched the rain part around us multiple times at Llangollen yesterday, stayed dry all day. 😎 @jaggedglobe Association of Mountaineering Instructors
Ran a Boost your Confidence workshop for Mountain Training Association on Saturday. We stayed dry out at Holyhead Mountain but it was a tad windy at the top. Along with everyone else Mags really took on board the coaching, all the ‘system testing’ earlier in the day paid off. Here she is discovering that climbing hard on windy, exposed routes can be exhilarating and fun rather than scary and unpleasant. Mountain Training Association of Mountaineering Instructors Womenclimb Thisgirlcan
This is so true! How can trying be wrong? In the very process of succeeding you will not get it right a time or two or even a thousand. The only failure is not trying.
Would you like to know how to organise yourself on cramped multi pitch stances? Delighted to say Leading Edge will be delivering workshops in this and all things belay related at the Womens Climbing Symposium next month. Check it out, loads of amazing speakers, workshops and the most incredible vibe. https://www.womensclimbingsymposium.com/w orkshops18 Super excited to be part of this again. Association of Mountaineering Instructors Womenclimb Thisgirlcan Women Outdoors
Up and coming Mountain Training courses this month & next. Lowland Leader Training: 22nd-23rd September. Rock Climbing Instructor Training: 13th-15th October. Hill Skills. 27th-28th October. Rock climbing Instructor Assessment: 27th-28th October.... Summer Mountain Leader Assessment 22nd-26th October. Summer Mountain Leader Training 29th October 3rd Nov. Modern and very practical courses run by highly qualified, experienced and supportive staff team. http://leadingedge-mountain.co.uk/ or info@leadingedge-Mountain.co.uk for more details. Mountain Training Mountain Training Association
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Climbing Wall Instructor Training in Snowdonia with two spaces left this weekend 8-9 September. Very modern, practical hands on course covering all you need to be a excellent instructor. Option for abseil module on the Sunday too. Very experienced and highly qualified staff. info@leadingedge-mountain.co.uk for more details @mountaintraining Mountain Training Association
On the grit, showing great grit and determination. Constella fought with everything and used just about every part of her body (sure we saw a ear jam at one point). But the reaction when she knew she had done it was priceless. An truly inspiring effort on the Mountain Inspired Women’s Weekend in the Peak District. Thisgirlcan Womenclimb Association of Mountaineering Instructors
Lottie on her first time on gritstone, only her second climbing trip outside and here she is on Browns Eliminate E2 5b, amazing effort. Wonder what she will manage today😃. Thisgirlcan Womenclimb Women Outdoors
This lovely bank holiday weather will drive many climbers indoors. We still have spaces on our Climbing Wall Instructor Training 8th - 9th September, based out of Llanberis, Snowdonia. If your passionate about your climbing, would like to share that enthusiasm and help others learn how to enjoy it safely, then this is a great course for you. http://leadingedge-mountain.co.uk/cwi.htm l or contact info@leadingedge-mountain.co.uk for mor details. Mountain Training Mountain Training Association #climbinginstructor #climbingwalls
Just to let you know we have changed the date of our Summer Mountain Leader training to help those that wish to come to us in half term, it’s now running 29th October-3rd November. Only one place left on the assessment 22nd-26th October, although we can run another group if we get enough interest. http://leadingedge-mountain.co.uk/SML.htm l Mountain Training Mountain Training Association
Not planned anything yet? How about a fun filled three days packed full of learning and confidence boosting coaching too? 😃
Still a space if you would like to enjoy three great days on fab Welsh rock. 😃
Naomi trying incredibly hard to manage her ‘head game’. Having been hurt by a fall a while ago getting back on the sharp end has been hard. Endless patience from Laura belaying allowed her to deal (so bravely) with some big demons and realise she can do it and best of all enjoy it😃. Association of Mountaineering Instructors Adventure 52 Magazine UKClimbing.com Thisgirlcan Womenclimb Angelesy
Would you like to help others in the outdoors? How about becoming an instructor or leader? We have spaces on our up and coming training courses. Climbing Wall Instructor (with abseil module). 8th-9th Sept. Lowland Leader 22nd-23rd Sept. Both courses are in Snowdonia, they are modern, packed full of skills and techniques, all delivered by highly experienced staff in a relaxed and fun way. Info@leadingedge-mountain.co.uk http://leadingedge-mountain.co.uk/cwi.htm l ... http://leadingedge-mountain.co.uk/lowland leader.html
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The most amazing mountain guide. Truly inspirational with a fantastic ability to motivate / inspire and empower anyone she works with. Enthusiastic with seemingly limitless energy.
Clear from the first time I met her that this enthusiasm is borne from genuine enjoyment in helping others to experience the things she loves doing - it is very clearly not because she is 'paid to be enthusiastic'....
Client led - clearly an exceptionally talented climber & more, but it takes great skill to be able to impart knowledge to those with 'a little less ability!' - Sam has this skill in abundance.
Whether you want to take it easy, to your limit, beyond your own perceived limitations or any combination - Sam will happily oblige and you will have a great time whatever you choose.
Empowers you to make your own decisions. Incredible local knowledge will allow you to get the very best out of any time available. An incredible knowledge of the outdoors full stop......
Great conversation - always interesting.... and interested!
Attention to detail is ever present & no matter how much I wanted to push myself - safety was always the highest priority - followed almost immediately by making everything fun, no matter how much rain is falling or how cold it gets.
What more can I say - other than I have now had 15 or 16 days, loved every minute, and have learnt more than I could have imagined. If that wasn't enough she has taken my wife climbing - who was (is) afraid of heights - and she returned for more too!!
Hoping not too many people will read this, otherwise Sam will never be available for a booking!
Thanks a lot for the truly inspiring lecture at UCL yesterday - it was much more than I had hoped for. Keen to get out there now!
She is such a great teacher so enthusiastic ��
Sam was absolutely the best Mountain Guide I could have hoped for. I was with Sam for two days on a winter skills course to try and convert my summer climbing skills into winter mountaineering. She was endlessly patient at explaining everything and kept the training fun and practical. I always felt safe with Sam and, even more, I felt she gave me the skills necessary to keep myself safe. Best of all, she was always managed to make me smile, through hot aches to top outs. An incredible teacher that I couldn’t recommend more. Needless to say, I can’t wait to get back out on the mountain!
Sam is the consummate professional- hugely experienced, interesting, articulate, constructive and unfailingly good-humoured. Her Winter Mountain Leader training which I attended was by some way the best course I have been on.
Sam is one of the most enthusiastic instructors I've ever had! Supremely knowledgeable and really good at teaching and coaching; I learnt absolutely loads and climbed a harder climb than I ever thought I could. Brilliant! :-D
Sam is inspiring, encouraging, full of energy and enthusiasm - not only for her job but to see her clients succeed and improve. A fantastic instructor to spend a few days with whether it's your first or 1,000th adventure into the great outdoors.
Me and my sister had a weekend climbing with Sam, I was a complete novice and had never climbed outside whereas my sister was pretty experienced. Although we had the typical Welsh weather Sam's enthusiasm and passion kept us smiling the whole weekend! I was pretty worried I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the climbing, but Sam is an amazing teacher and was so encouraging my confidence really grew, and after just two days me and my sister can now go multi pitch climbing together! Thank you Sam for such an amazing weekend full of laughs and for saving my life a few times! I'd recommend to anyone and will definitely do this again! :)
I used Sam for a day of navigation revision and she was absolutely brilliant! She spent time making sure she understood what I wanted to achieve and was so friendly I immediately felt at ease going out on the Hill with her. She is genuinely passionate about the work she does and even gave up an evening to do more night navigation with me after we ran out of time on the first day. Her ongoing email support has also been really appreciated. In my opinion a SUPERB mountaineering instructor
I just spent a superb weekend in North Wales with Sam, working on improving my trad leading skills. It wasn't an easy brief, with me saying "I just want to be better at this, and know that I know what I'm doing" but she absolutely managed to fulfill it. After two days with her I feel both more confident and more competent and can't wait to get out on the rock next weekend and, as she says, "strut my stuff on the sharp end"!
Sam has a lovely individual approach to people she works with, assessing their needs very quickly and tailoring the days accordingly. She is impressively knowledgeable and competent, making you feel completely safe in her hands even though you are realistically in an unsafe environment. This she regularly points out, all the while teaching you how to assess your situation and make good decisions to stay as safe as possible. Ultimately the result is that knowing you have done everything you can, you accept the risk involved and have no space for fear of the unknown because nothing is unknown any more. Oh, and she is also super friendly, kind, funny and all around amazing woman and role model.
TL,DR: Sam is brilliant, book on a course with her! I certainly will be again.
Engaging, funny instructor with a vast store of experience and knowledge.
As a bit of insider information, I've worked as an instructor with Sam many times over the past ten years, and she is far and away one of the best instructors in North Wales - and there are a lot of very good instructors around here!
Absolutely top notch professional. Many thanks and hope we meet again.
Absolutely brilliant few days with Sam and Kath doing the new Rock Climbing Instructor training. Learnt so much from the two of them (and I'm still trying to think of a rescue situation indoors which would get you off the floor Sam!)
The most amazing mountain guide. Truly inspirational with a fantastic ability to motivate / inspire and empower anyone she works with. Enthusiastic with seemingly limitless energy.
Clear from the first time I met her that this enthusiasm is borne from genuine enjoyment in helping others to experience the things she loves doing - it is very clearly not because she is 'paid to be enthusiastic'....
Client led - clearly an exceptionally talented climber & more, but it takes great skill to be able to impart knowledge to those with 'a little less ability!' - Sam has this skill in abundance.
Whether you want to take it easy, to your limit, beyond your own perceived limitations or any combination - Sam will happily oblige and you will have a great time whatever you choose.
Empowers you to make your own decisions. Incredible local knowledge will allow you to get the very best out of any time available. An incredible knowledge of the outdoors full stop......
Great conversation - always interesting.... and interested!
Attention to detail is ever present & no matter how much I wanted to push myself - safety was always the highest priority - followed almost immediately by making everything fun, no matter how much rain is falling or how cold it gets.
What more can I say - other than I have now had 15 or 16 days, loved every minute, and have learnt more than I could have imagined. If that wasn't enough she has taken my wife climbing - who was (is) afraid of heights - and she returned for more too!!
Hoping not too many people will read this, otherwise Sam will never be available for a booking!
Thanks a lot for the truly inspiring lecture at UCL yesterday - it was much more than I had hoped for. Keen to get out there now!
She is such a great teacher so enthusiastic ��
Sam was absolutely the best Mountain Guide I could have hoped for. I was with Sam for two days on a winter skills course to try and convert my summer climbing skills into winter mountaineering. She was endlessly patient at explaining everything and kept the training fun and practical. I always felt safe with Sam and, even more, I felt she gave me the skills necessary to keep myself safe. Best of all, she was always managed to make me smile, through hot aches to top outs. An incredible teacher that I couldn’t recommend more. Needless to say, I can’t wait to get back out on the mountain!
Sam is the consummate professional- hugely experienced, interesting, articulate, constructive and unfailingly good-humoured. Her Winter Mountain Leader training which I attended was by some way the best course I have been on.
Sam is one of the most enthusiastic instructors I've ever had! Supremely knowledgeable and really good at teaching and coaching; I learnt absolutely loads and climbed a harder climb than I ever thought I could. Brilliant! :-D
Sam is inspiring, encouraging, full of energy and enthusiasm - not only for her job but to see her clients succeed and improve. A fantastic instructor to spend a few days with whether it's your first or 1,000th adventure into the great outdoors.
Me and my sister had a weekend climbing with Sam, I was a complete novice and had never climbed outside whereas my sister was pretty experienced. Although we had the typical Welsh weather Sam's enthusiasm and passion kept us smiling the whole weekend! I was pretty worried I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the climbing, but Sam is an amazing teacher and was so encouraging my confidence really grew, and after just two days me and my sister can now go multi pitch climbing together! Thank you Sam for such an amazing weekend full of laughs and for saving my life a few times! I'd recommend to anyone and will definitely do this again! :)
I used Sam for a day of navigation revision and she was absolutely brilliant! She spent time making sure she understood what I wanted to achieve and was so friendly I immediately felt at ease going out on the Hill with her. She is genuinely passionate about the work she does and even gave up an evening to do more night navigation with me after we ran out of time on the first day. Her ongoing email support has also been really appreciated. In my opinion a SUPERB mountaineering instructor
I just spent a superb weekend in North Wales with Sam, working on improving my trad leading skills. It wasn't an easy brief, with me saying "I just want to be better at this, and know that I know what I'm doing" but she absolutely managed to fulfill it. After two days with her I feel both more confident and more competent and can't wait to get out on the rock next weekend and, as she says, "strut my stuff on the sharp end"!
Sam has a lovely individual approach to people she works with, assessing their needs very quickly and tailoring the days accordingly. She is impressively knowledgeable and competent, making you feel completely safe in her hands even though you are realistically in an unsafe environment. This she regularly points out, all the while teaching you how to assess your situation and make good decisions to stay as safe as possible. Ultimately the result is that knowing you have done everything you can, you accept the risk involved and have no space for fear of the unknown because nothing is unknown any more. Oh, and she is also super friendly, kind, funny and all around amazing woman and role model.
TL,DR: Sam is brilliant, book on a course with her! I certainly will be again.
Engaging, funny instructor with a vast store of experience and knowledge.
As a bit of insider information, I've worked as an instructor with Sam many times over the past ten years, and she is far and away one of the best instructors in North Wales - and there are a lot of very good instructors around here!
Absolutely top notch professional. Many thanks and hope we meet again.
Absolutely brilliant few days with Sam and Kath doing the new Rock Climbing Instructor training. Learnt so much from the two of them (and I'm still trying to think of a rescue situation indoors which would get you off the floor Sam!)