#TeamMST
Stuart King
Stuart is married to Lisa with two children, Jessica and Jack and they live on the Northumberland Coast.
Stuart learnt his navigation skills in the British Army and has spent the last 20 years mountaineering, climbing and mountain biking around the world. He has recently led expeditions in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Iceland.
He is an active Mountain Rescue volunteer and gets involved whenever he has time.
Stuart is a qualified Winter Mountain Leader and Rock Climbing Instructor. He also holds many other cycling and water safety qualifications.
His favourite bit of kit is his OMM 35 litre rucksack. It’s a lightweight, go anywhere, do anything bit of kit and it’s bombproof. He's used it winter climbing on the Ben, mountain biking in Sierra Nevada and Christmas shopping in Edinburgh!
Karl Wait
Karl Wait lives in Wooler, Northumberland.
His outdoor activities include Fell/Mountain Running, Mountain Climbing, Wild Camping, Kayaking, Climbing, Wild Swimming, Guided Walks and most other things in the outdoors.
Karl regularly provides training in Mountain Skills and navigation in the hills and mountains around the UK as well as safety in the hills.
He is an active Mountain Rescue volunteer and gets involved whenever he has time.
As well as taking part and working on Outdoor/Mountain events as an organiser, marshal and leader Karl also works in the waters of the UK, delivering Coasteering Sessions and wild swimming, he also provides in-water safety for events and TV media productions.
We asked Karl for a profile pic and this is what he sent - mountaineer extraordinaire!!
Jon Punshon
Jon has climbed and skied throughout the UK and Western Europe for many years, and in the 1990s passed the MIA and MIC qualifications. The MIC was re-named Winter Mountaineering and Rock Climbing Instructor 2 years ago. These qualifications have allowed Jon to “train the trainers” and he has trained and assessed generations of rock climbing instructors on behalf of Mountain Training UK.
Jon’s main interests lie in the Western Alps and has climbed many “Grandes Courses” with the Comici - Demai on Cimegrande in the Dolomites being his most recent achievement. Jon doesn’t currently have a favourite bit of kit but is currently coping with a deep resentment of an expensive headtorch which failed on an 8 abseil alpine descent in the dark!
