International Mountain Leader Assessment Summer
  • Alpine
  • 4 Days
  • 8 People to 1 instructor

International Mountain Leader Assessment Summer

  • Hike
  • Mountain Training Award
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Overview

You’ll be assessed on your practical application of leadership, environmental knowledge, route choice, group care, navigation and many other skills, as well as your fitness. You’ll also complete a home paper, prepare two 10-minute ‘on the hill’ environmental presentations, a route planning exercise and present your Leader’s resource file. You’ll need to be at the top of your game for this expedition-based assessment – fit, acclimatised and familiar with all aspects of the Mountain Training accredited syllabus. Please come with a packed rucksack, food and drink, and dressed for a day walk in the local area. You’ll also need with you your logbook/DLog, first aid certificate, leader’s resource pack, home preparation paper, and travel insurance.

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The Objectives

The International Mountain Leader scheme (IML) provides comprehensive training and assessment for individuals who aspire to work as leaders in Europe and further afield. It integrates training, experience and assessment in a variety of realistic situations. The scheme provides training and assessment in the skills required for leading and educating groups worldwide in summer conditions and also on easy snow-covered, rolling, Nordic-type terrain in the “middle mountains” in winter conditions.

Itinerary

* Please note: Itinerary is subject to weather and availability.

There’ll be a course welcome and full briefing at 9.00am . The assessment is based in Switzerland – Villars sur Ollon – Vaud. Please arrive with your logbook/Dlog, leader’s resource pack, home preparation paper and travel insurance After this you’ll head out for a day walk in small teams with an instructor. The areas of syllabus you will be continually assessed on are: Leadership Navigation Broad environmental knowledge Client care in a variety of environments Personal movement skills and fitness Response to emergency scenarios Emergency use of rope to include dealing with fixed equipment Route choice, hazard awareness and management in a variety of terrain Organising clients in overnight accommodation Whilst this is a 4 day assessment, we will try to provide an opportunity for some training on summer snow patches, subject to availability of a suitable summer snow patch At the end of each day, there is an opportunity for feedback from the assessor

Experience Required

You must have; Completed an IML Summer training course and successfully passed your TIMED NAVIGATION TEST Gained further experience as required before assessment You should be 18 years old to attend this course. You also need to be familiar with, and prepared to demonstrate all aspects of the International Mountain Leader syllabus. A copy of the syllabus can be downloaded from the Mountain Training website. You should be physically fit for four days walking. As a guide to the level of fitness required, the syllabus states that candidates ‘must be capable of sustained physical effort over approximately six hours, whilst carrying a 10kg rucksack and gaining between 1300 and 1600m of ascent at the rate of 400 to 500m per hour’. The assessment will take place at altitude so you need to be suitably acclimatised to operate at approximately 3000m.

Your assessment takes place over four days, it will take the form of a 3 day hut based journey with overnights in high mountain huts and gites and a day walk.

Available Course Dates

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Course Start Date
31st August, 2026
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Duration
4 Days
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Non-Residential:
£1,245.00
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Course Start Date
7th September, 2026
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Duration
4 Days
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Non-Residential:
£1,245.00
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