The Mountain Leader and Nature of Snowdonia

Xmas 2026 SPECIAL

Buy The Mountain Leader - a practical handbook and Nature of Snowdonia together for only £34 a saving of £4. Postage will be £4.45 (UK only)

I know you loved your Mountain Leader training course, and I know you love working as a Mountain Leader. But do you ever wonder if there are bits you might have forgotten from your training?

Was the training and assessment a blur of ring contours and strange knots? Or can you actually remember those conversations about why the hills look the way they do, how to deal with midgies or how to lead groups of people from backgrounds very different to your own?

Have no fear — The Mountain Leader: A Practical Manual is here to help.

It’s a dip-in handbook for Mountain Leaders. Of course, it will help while you’re training and being assessed, but its real value comes after assessment: as an aide-mémoire of your training course, plus a few extra things that, even if your wonderful trainers and assessors covered them, might have got lost in that blur of undulating terrain. A very popular feature is the Top Tips From Mountain Leader boxes, real nuggets of solid experienced for you to learn from

I’d love it if you could take a look at The Mountain Leader: A Practical Manual.

Nature of Snowdonia - 

The revised and expanded 2nd Edition of the first complete field guide for the mountains of Snowdonia through the seasons, its  plants, animals and rocks. Everything you’re likely to see in the hills at that time of year is here in one volume. This edition is twice the size of volume one, full of new photographs and extensively re-written. 

Recommended by Mountain Leaders for use in the Lake District and Scottish Highlands, in-fact any of our acidic upland where many of the same species, as seen in Eryri, will be encountered.

"Amazing book, currently training towards my mountain leader and the information this book provides is second to none." Louie

"I love this book, manages to make natural history engaging and accessible to those of who aren't specialists, without patronising or simplifying unnecessarily. Really helps you to understand how the flora and fauna fits into the landscape around, rather than just treating it as distinct/ separate elements." Mark

I can only post to UK addresses. If not UK you should be able to order it locally or buy from one of the online stores, sorry. 

All book bought direct from me will be signed though