Hill & Moorland Leader Award Assessment
The Hill and Moorland Leader Award, (HML), is for people who wish to lead groups in the hill and moorland areas of the UK and Ireland. These areas include the Peak District, North Yorkshire Moors and Dales, Dartmoor and similar countryside. Being an Award holder is a wonderful way to prove the skills required to confidently take people out walking.
As you may have guessed from the descriptive title of this award, it focuses on non-mountainous terrain. Award holders operate in terrain that is generally more remote than that used by Lowland Leaders and not as steep, or rocky, as ground covered by Mountain Leaders.
This HML Award Assessment is run in conjunction with Pete Goldsmith Mountaineering WMCI IML, who is the course provider, number 546.
Course Outline
The Hill and Moorland Leader assessment is three days long. You will be assessed against the syllabus competencies in the candidate handbook. At the end of the assessment you will receive one of three results:
- Pass
- Defer (requires a partial reassessment)
- Fail (requires a full reassessment
Syllabus
- Leader responsibilities
- Leadership and decision making
- Planning and weather
- Hazards and emergency procedures
- Equipment
- Walking skills
- Navigation
- Teaching and learning skills
- Access, conservation and the environment
- Background knowledge
Pre-requistes
- Have attended a Hill and Moorland Leader training course (or have been granted exemption)
- You must be familiar with the syllabus
- Have logged a minimum of 40 Quality Hillwalking Days in at least three different upland areas of the UK and Ireland
- Must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least two full days or sixteen hours of instruction and included an element of assessment