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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