Other training courses & resources
All Terrain Ski runs great ski courses in Chamonix for intermediate skiers wanting to raise their game!
Flight Culture run by John Welch offers personal paragliding instruction & overseas flying expeditions - these guys are the best!
Land Rover Experience offer superb driving courses throughout the UK and around the world.
Fitness expert Mark Roberts offers highly specialised training support through his private London gym. Visit Personal Space Ltd.
Royal Geographical Society/IBG seminars, lectures & travel related events
Staying Alive Off-piste a free online ski mountaineering book written by Barry Roberts & Douglas Gurr
Travel-quest is a large resource for anyone wanting training or holidays in almost all mountain and outdoor activities, including climbing and mountaineering, ski mountaineering and touring, bushcraft and expeditions.
Woodsmoke offer fantastic bushcraft and survival training
Equipment, clothing and food
The North Face for the best outdoor equipment & clothing on the market
Hitch N Hike for a great on line catalogue and excellent aftersales service
Rivers and Clouds for brilliant inflatable canoes, kayaks, online films etc.
Cicerone publish a great range of travel guides books for walkers, cyclists, climbers and skiers.
Ellis Brigham for first class outdoor equipment and clothing - see the NEWS page for details of the WMT student 10% off deal
Travel, Adventure, Events & Photography
Corporate Interventions Ltd. for world-wide team building, leadership programmes & inspirational lectures
Kendal Mountain Festival the biggest mountain fest in Britain
Planet Fear adventure website - lots of great technical articles
Ross Woodhall Images for fantastic outdoor action photography
islide for more brilliant Ross Woodhall images
Dr Nick Mason, a WMT instructor, is an Olympus sponsored photographer. See why at his website Summit Photographs
Organisations that recruit medics
Coral Cay Conservation runs conservation expeditions that are coral reef or tropical forest based
Fauna & Flora the world's longest established conservation organisation. Contact Alex Page
World Challenge Expeditions runs commercial youth expeditions
Raleigh International
Organisations that every serious explorer should join
The Alpine Club is the oldest mountaineering club in the world and is a goldmine of useful information, contacts and events
The Royal Geographical Society/IBG is the UK's focal point for expeditions and related publications, training events and advice
WMT Delegate & Client websites & blogs
Tim Burton - Polar (and wedding!) photography
Leanne Franklin-Smith - website & blog for Polar Challenge in aid of Help For Heroes
Ollie Hicks - Virgin Global Row (attempt to row solo around the world)
Skip Novak - Pelagic Antarctic voyages
Dr Andy Shute - photography & blog
Rebecca Stephens - first British woman to climb Everest and complete the 7 summits
Stephen Venables - website
Tim Osmond - www.mahamavo.org Bath Uni biodiversity project
Jan & Trevor Rutters are on their www.gapyear4x4.com overland journey to raise money for SOS Children's Villages.
Ken Roberts starts cycling around the world in September to raise money for the Outward Bound Trust www.acrosscontinents.org
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