My love of climbing comes from the variety of experiences on offer and sharing memorable days with good friends, I enjoy all disciplines of climbing, all year round. There are crossovers between disciplines but no two feel the same, there is so much to learn. My biggest passion lies with adventurous trad climbing in the mountains and Scottish winter climbing. The memories made on these days last in perpetuity. Climbing, to me, is synonymous with adventure and that adventure keeps me hungry for more.

I started climbing with the university club and served my trad climbing apprenticeship on the Aberdeen sea cliffs. This set me up well for exploring the mountain crags in summer and winter. In this domain I enjoy onsighting, climbing into the unknown with little information on what is coming up. Figuring out moves, unlocking sequences and fiddling in another small wire, because it might be the last one... the thrill of pulling it out of the bag. It's an unbeatable feeling when you're in that onsight bubble and it all just flows.

I have had some very fun trips to the Alps in summer and winter, climbing lots of day routes from Chamonix and 4000m peaks around the Saastal. I was an inaugural member of the Young Alpinist Group, which culminated in my first expedition to the Greater Ranges. On this trip to the Indian Himalaya we made the first ascent of a new route to an unclimbed 6303m peak. An eye opening experience into what expedition climbing is all about.

I always have a call to be back in Scotland. I moved to the Highlands in 2019 to be closer to the climbing and the mountains that I love. I work as a mechanical engineer for a renewable energy technology development company, we are working on making wave energy a commercially viable energy resource. Another passion in my life, balancing this with climbing is made easier by having an abundance of climbing and so many projects on my doorstep.