Skills and Qualifications
Ed is two times UK National Record holder in competitive freediving and competed with the British team in the AIDA world championships 2011. - Clean driving licence for car and motorcycle
- Canadian firearms aquisition and possesion of unrestricted and restricted weapons
- GB Recruitment Staffs Ltd, Standard Disclosure Number 001230711930, 26th March 2009
- PADI Rescue Diver
- AIDA Freediver - 2 x UK National Record holder 'Constant Weight, No Fins' to 60m
- HUET – Helicopter Underwater Escape Training Certified
- Sea Survival Training Certified
- Medic First Aid Trained 2008, recap March 2009, infant first aid 2010
- Wilderness solo expedition First Aid, 2 day training by Ex+Med, Hereford UK
- Competent horse rider
- RYA Day Skipper
- Experienced High Altitude Mountaineer (3 everest expeditions)
- Arctic Experienced (Geographic North Pole 2008)
- Notable Ascents
- 2000
- Cotopaxi 5897m
- Huayna Potosi 6088 m 19,974 feet
- 2004
- Killimanjaro 5896m (normal route)
- 2006
- Volcan Descabezado Grande 3953 m 12,969 ft (solo)
- Ojos del Salado 6900 m (Chilean approach)
- Mount Everest via north east ridge filming to 8400m
- 2007
- Scottish winter ice and mixed routes to Grade IV and Cosmic Arrete, Chamonix
- Imja Tse Island Peak 6183 m
- Mount Everest summit via north east ridge. 0530Hrs 21 st May 08. 8848m 29,028ft (summit cameraman)
- 2009
- Mount Kenya Nelion Peak, 5000M Grade 4+
- Scottish winter ice and mixed routes to Grade V
- Mount Everest summit via South Col. 0415Hrs 20th May 09. 8848m 29,028ft (summit cameraman)
- 2010
- Denali/McKinley West Buttress 16:30 27th May 10. 6,194 m 20,320 feet (cameraman)
Physical
- Up to date and clean - full medical to September 2011
- CAA JAA Class 2 Commercial Pilot Medical Certificate valid until 29/12/2012
- Hyperbaric Centre London medical to March 2012
Memberships - Royal Geographical Society
- British Mountaineering Council
- British Motorcycle Federation
- Marine Conservation Society
- British Freediving Association - Competitions Officer
- John Muir Trust
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