The journey started already in 2014 but become serious from 2017. I was involved from 2018 and in the beginning of November this year we (SFLO) became fully members of the UIMLA organization.

This meaning that we got the five first International Mountain Leaders trained and examined in Sweden. But what does this all means? Well, it means that SFLO had been approved as a provider of the UIMLA standards. Ok, but what does the training and the examination includes then? First we got the previous knowledge such as you must be a certified Swedish Mountain Leader among others. The IML itself includes all this moments: Security in mountainous terrain, navigation, first aid and rescue, group leadership, teaching, mountain environment, anatomy and physiology, weather, mountain survival/bivouacking, physical ability, legal and economic considerations, multi-day activities, snow covered terrain, duration of training and assessment must be minimum 40 days and a minimum of 10 days in snow covered terrain. After you have done all this part and also have demonstrated good decision-making ability and have a good self-awareness, you can be approved. Then the real challenge start to live up to the expectation as a International Mountain Leader.

The two most important abilities you must have is just self-awareness and judgement ability. You also continuously must develop. Evolve your self as a leader as a guide. You must never stop training…

This week I also held a information about the Swedish Mountain Leader standards and about the International Mountain Leader standard at a meeting with the Swedish Centre for nature Interpretation. My take is that our training got a very good quality and level…

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See ya tomorrow…