22 years, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team
Active team member and former deputy team leader, with 400+ callouts across Lochaber and beyond.
Your instructor
Calum MacRae
Mountain rescue veteran · FREC4 instructor · former Royal Marine medic
Every weekend is taught personally by Calum — not a rotating pool of trainers. What you'll practise on the hill is exactly what he does on a real callout, minus the helicopter.
- 400+Mountain rescue callouts
- 22Years on the team
- 1,800+Hikers trained
Credentials
The qualifications behind the weekend
FREC Level 4 & instructor qualified
First Response Emergency Care at the highest pre-hospital level, plus an accredited instructor award to teach it.
Mountaineering & Climbing Instructor (MCI)
Mountain Training’s top hill leadership qualification — comfortable teaching on real terrain in any weather.
Casualty Care in Mountain Rescue (CCMR)
The dedicated mountain rescue medical qualification, refreshed and assessed every three years.
Winter ML & avalanche awareness
Winter Mountain Leader, with SAIS-informed avalanche and cold-injury experience for the serious end of the season.
Former Royal Marine medic
A decade of remote and austere medicine before coming home to the hills.
Certificates and registration numbers are available on request, and verified with Mountain Training and the relevant awarding bodies.
In his words
"The hill doesn't care how good your certificate is."
"I've watched capable people freeze — literally and figuratively — because the only first aid they'd done was sitting in a warm room. The hands have to have done it before, in the cold, in the wet."
"So that's how I teach. We get you uncomfortable, we make mistakes where it's safe to make them, and by Sunday you trust yourself. That's the whole point."
Train with Calum