mountain leader
English
Noun
mountain leader (plural mountain leaders)
- (military) A military operative who specializes in leading, or delivering training for, operations at high altitudes or very low temperatures.
- Someone who leads groups on mountain climbs and hikes after having been trained and receiving a qualification.
- 2000, Pete Hill & Stuart Johnston, The Mountain Skills Training Handbook, →ISBN, page 159:
- The rucksack of a summer mountain leader should contain adequate kit for not only himself, but a few extra essentials for group use.
- 2000, Arthur Harold Griffin, The Coniston Tigers: Seventy Years of Mountain Adventure, →ISBN, page 197:
- Meanwhile, Robin took a first-aid course, so that he might help people in distress on the hills, qualified as a mountain leader and, in the spring of 1998, went on an expedition to the Himalayas.
- 2004, Nick Cullingworth, BTEC National Public Services, →ISBN, page 227:
- Find someone who has a mountain leader award and ask what skills and knowledge the training gave them.
- 2013, Allen Fyffe & Blair Fyffe, Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms: The Cairngorms and Creag Meagaidh, →ISBN:
- During the summer he does a variety of jobs, including mountain leader, countryside ranger and research associate for Edinburgh University.
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