Rock Climbing & Mountaineering Guide/Instructor
International Wilderness Leadership School
Skagway, Alaska
• Guided and instructed groups of up to 30 people on multi-day mountaineering trips and rock climbing trips• Rock Climbing teaching curriculum included: LNT, knots, belaying, rappelling, lead climbing (sport & trad), climbing strategies, protection strategies, anchors, multi-pitching, and rescue techniques (including escaping the belay, ascending, descending, lowering, raising, and haul systems). • Mountaineering teaching curriculum included: self arrest techniques, glissading, snow anchors, crevasse rescue, crampon types and techniques, rope team types and techniques, glacier travel, and avalanche awareness (characteristics, snow stability evaluation, safe winter travel, and rescue)