Tony Halliwell

Tony started instructing in the outdoors as a volunteer, whilst working as a qualitative market researcher, first at agencies in London and then running his own business, but soon after qualifying as an MCI in the late 1990s he was offered his first “professional” work, at PyB, and thus began a transition to becoming a full-time instructor.  Tony’s main work areas have been as technical advisor at centres/climbing walls, a provider of MTE courses, many years of Scottish winter climbing instruction and overseas trekking peaks expeditions leader (mainly Nepal).

Tony was Chair of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors from 2009-2011, a director of MTUKI 2014-2017, a director and then Vice Chair of Mountain Training England 2018-2023.  He is now serving a second term as MTT director, nominated by MTE. He is almost (but not quite completely) retired and does his best to be a still-active climber and mountaineer.