snowdonia adventures
Anglesey.
Mark Handford manages the day to day running of the business, and the company
employs a core team of highly experienced and qualified instructors to help
deliver courses and adventure activities. Mark holds the following
qualifications: Winter Mountain Leader Summer Mountain Leader Rock climbing
Instructor RYA Powerboat 2 Coastal endorsement Rescue 3 Europe Swiftwater &
Flood Rescue Technician (SRT) Rescue 3 Europe Swiftwater & Flood Rescue Boat
Operator (SFRBO) Qualified competent person for inspection of PPE by Helix
Tactical BCU Performance Award Sea Kayak (3 Star) & White Water Kayak (3 Star)
LCML training Rescue Emergency Care Level 2 1st Aid (REC) Mark is also a
National Navigation Award Scheme Gold Level Course Provider and Tutor Course
Provider and is the NNAS course moderator for North Wales and Anglesey. He also
has membership of the following organisations British Mountaineering Council
Mountain Training Association Snowsport Scotland Canoe Wales, The National
Governing Body for paddlesports in Wales Fédération Internationale des
Patrouilles de Ski National Coasteering Charter Mountain Rescue UK Mark has a
long history with mountain rescue. In the UK he was a team member of Ogwen
Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation as a trainee in October 2005 and then as a
full team member from 2006-2011. Mountain Rescue in Nepal Whilst in Nepal in
2003/4, Mark was a volunteer member of the Nepalese Himalayan Rescue Association
and volunteer outreach worker for Medicins Sans Frontiers in Manang, Nepal.
Lowland Rescue Association Mark was a founding member and training officer for
the first Lowland Rescue Team in Wales, Mon-SAR from 2015 – 2017 and has the
following qualifications Lowland Rescue Search Technician Search Party Leader
Instructor Search Manager and Planner Lowland Rescue Search Technician Assessor
TAQA – Training, Assessment & Quality Assurance, Level 3 IQA – Internal Quality
Assurance, Level 4 SARMAN software qualified for search management Specialist
Search Dogs Mark is a qualified, assessed by David Jones and Gavin Roberts,
cadaver search dog handler with his spaniel ‘Missy’. He has delivered
presentations at seminars for land and water search with search dogs, as well as
conducted ongoing searches in the UK for missing persons. Mark has also attended
IKAR conferences for continued professional development. Whilst working as a
consultant for International Rescue Training Centre Wales, he also help develop
the Dangerous Dogs Handling course and delivered it to numerous candidates in
the UK and also to environment agency and council officers in Northern Ireland.
Also whilst at IRTCW he also helped organise, deliver and present at two
specialist water search seminars, the first at Hawley Lake by Gibraltar Barracks
and then at Trent Lock, Nottingham. Rafting in Nepal In 2003 he was part of a
team providing the first commercial white water rafting expeditions with Equator
Expeditions, undertaking an expedition on the mighty Sunkoshi River as well as
the upper and lower sections of Bohte Koshi.
