tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77506275773987497682011-08-25T10:03:35.418-07:00Louis Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01708230724790341240noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7750627577398749768.post-34000270678825064292009-02-05T05:23:00.000-08:002011-08-25T02:55:06.495-07:00<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">E.mail</span>:</span></strong> kentkayakking@yahoo.co.uk</p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" >TEL</span> </span>0774814253</b></p><p> <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>DOB</strong>:</span> 21.01.79 (32)</p><p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Nationality</strong>:</span> English,</p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9900;">languages. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span">erman</span></span></b> <br /> <br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">EMPLOYMENT</span></strong></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span">27.04.2010-present.raft guide ,canyon guide, safety kayaker ,trip leader ,photographer for swiss river adventures ilanz graubunden,tessin scoül</span></p><p>10.01.2010 -30.03.2010. ski instructor for grindelwald sports,the swiss,ski and snowboard school,also lift operator and technical work.</p><p><span> 01.05.09 - 20.09.09. raft guide, canyon guide, safety kayaker, photographer, Swissriver Adventures Ilanz switzerland,tessin,scoül</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"> <br /></span>01.10.08 guide, raftguide, safety kayaker, kayak coach, photo kayaker on the Ganges and Alaknanda, D-N-Ascents Expeditions, Rishikesh, India </p><p> <br />01.05.08-24.09.08 Raft guide II, safety kayaker, tripleader, Swissraft Adventrues, Ilanz, Switserland (class III-IV)</p><p> <br />1.09.07 to 29.04.08 Self-Employed Outdoor Instructor, Lake District, UK </p><p> <br />01.08.07 to 30.08.07 Raft guide,safety kayaker, kayak coach for Sport Mix in Bovec ,Slovenia on the Soca (III-IV)</p><p> <br />01.05.07 to 01.08.07 Raft guide, safety kayaker for Fazinatour. Ausria, working on the Inn (III) and the Oetz (IV)</p><p> <br />Winter 2004-2005 Ski Guide/Chalet Host Trois Vallees,French Alps.</p><p> <br />15.09.99 to 05.01.00 Ultimate Descents International, Safety Kayaker, in Nepal.</p><p> <br />02.09.96 to 10.09.99 Tower Wood Outdoor Education Centre Outdoor Education Tutor.</p><p> <br />02.01.96 to 01.08.96 Troutbeck Bridge Swimming Pool Full time Pool Attendant</p><p> <br />01.06.95 to 01.02.96 Kendal Leisure Centre, Leisure Assistant</p><p></p><p> <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>EDUCATION</strong> <br /></span>Lakes School – Troutbeck Bridge Windermere <br />GCSE Maths, English, P.E, Design and Technology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, <br />Religious Studies and Geography. <br />Two year course in Outdoor Pursuits, Kendal Collage, UK</p><p></p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS &amp; TRAINING</span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">Swiss Outdoor Association</span></strong></p><p>s.o.a canyon guide level 1</p><p>s.o.a tripleader certificate</p><p>Austrian raft licence</p><p><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">British Canoe Union</span>:</strong> <br />Level 4 Kayak coach (inland) <br />Level 2 Open Canoe coach <br />A1 Assessor <br />Disability awareness course </p><p> <br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">Rescue 3</span></strong> <br /></span>Swift water rescue Technician 1 valid untill 2014</p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span">B.A.S.I</span></b></p><p>level 1 ski instructor </p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">Royal Yacht Assoc</span>.</span> </strong></p><p>Dinghy Instructor <br />Powerboat Instructor <br />Safety Boat <br />Advanced Powerboat (Practical) </p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">Mountain Leader Training Board</span> <br /></span></strong>Mountain Leader Certificate (Summer) <br />Single Pitch Award </p><p> <br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">National Caving Assoc</span></strong> <br /></span>Local Cave Leader (Training) </p><p> <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>British Orienteering Federation</strong> <br /></span>Instructor (Training) </p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">Offroad Training Consultancy</span> <br /></span></strong>Mountain Bike Leader Training Level 3 </p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">N.V.Q. Level 3</span> <br /></strong>Outdoor Education.</p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">FIRST AID</span></strong> valid until 2012 <br />REC (Rescue, Emergency, Care) certificate <br />Full U.K. Driving Licence (clean). </p><p> <br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">OBJECTIVES</span></strong> <br /></span>Over the past 15 years I have been working in the outdoor environment <br />with a wide range of groups, from children with learning and physical difficulties to management groups and instructing governing body courses to fellow Outdoor Instructors and members of the public. <br />My interests are all outdoor activities, which I pursue on a regular basis. Kayaking is my favourite sport which I participate in at a higher level, and use it to travel the world and meet people with similar interests. So far, I have been to Nepal, India, Kazakstan, Kurgystan,Canada,equador and travelled extensively throughout the European Alpes, Spain and New Zealand.</p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">RIVER EXPERIENCE</span></strong> <br />This is a brief account of my personal kayaking history.</p><p> <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">1990</span> </strong> <br />Started kayaking at my local pool learning skills and playing polo for the town of Kendal ,in this time I went out on various local rivers with elders an experienced paddlers. <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>1996</strong> <br /></span>started working at a outdoor centre in the Lake Distict, where I began gaining British Canoe Union Awards for both coaching and personal kayaking as well as gaining qualifications in other outdoor activities such as mountaineering and climbing and sailing etc. At this time I gained a lot of experience exploring some of the smaller unrun creeks of the English Lake District. <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>1997</strong> </span> <br />In May of this year was my first trip out to the French Alpes to the Briancon region where we kayaked most of the classic runs of the area Durance gorge the Reallion <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>1998</strong> <br /></span>In September I took 3 months off work at the outdoor centre and went out to Nepal with a friend an kayaked all the commercially run rivers and some others. It was here I did some safety kayaking work for a company called Exodus. I was safety kayaking on the Sun Kosi, Bhote Kosi and Karnarli. My role was also to set up camp and cook for the clients <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>1999<img class="gl_color_fg" border="0" alt="Text Color" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" /></strong> <br /></span>April headed out to Italy, to the Valsesia area for 2 weeks of fantastic kayaking again running the classsics class 5/4 creeks and the bigger volume runs. <br />September gave up my job at the centre as I had gained lots of qualifications and felt it was time to move on Went back to Nepal for the full season and worked for Ultimate Descents International as a safety kayaker and raft guide. In this season I also ran lots of kayak clinics for international groups I spent two months at the river camp on the Bohte Kosi as the safety kayaker in this time I paddled with lots of world class paddlers which was excellent experience. <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">2000</span></strong> <br />Now back in the UK I started working for myself as this was much more varied work. Over this time myself and 4 other uk boaters had been invited in to Kazakstan and Kyrgezstan to check out the rivers for the purposes of them to set up rafting operations. In this 6 week period we ran 11 first descents all of which were class 4 /5 it was a great life time experience and off the back of an article we wrote it now seems to have become a popular destination for lots of people <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2001</strong> <br /></span>Headed out to Italy again o for another 2 weeks of great white water <br />May road tripped around Austria Switzeland again running all the great runs including the upper ,middle and wellerbrucke on the Oetz, the Pitzbach and so on.. <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2002</strong> <br /></span>Worked back in the uk paddling as and when it rained spent a lot of time taking photos for kayaking companys as photography had become a great interest to me <br /><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">2003/2004</span></strong> <br />Went out to New Zealand for six months and spent lots of money on helicopter flights in the time, I was there I did söme work for Rangatata rafts as a safety boater . <br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">2004/2005</span> <br /></span></strong>Ski guide in the French Alpes <br />September, went out to Canada for a short break vancouver <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2006</strong> <br /></span>Mainly kayakking in te Lake District, UK. <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2007</strong> <br /></span>Working in Austria (Tirol) and Slovenia for 5 months, managed to run lots of riviers after work and during not-working-days in Tirol, Italy, switzerland and Slovenia. <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2008</strong> <br /></span>Working in Switserland for 6 months, managed to do many trips and rivers after work in Italy &amp; Switserland. <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2009</strong> <br /></span>I started the new year with a first descent on the upper reaches of the Pindari river in india.in october i the spent 3 months in equador photoboating, and kayaking for myself</p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span">2010</span></b></p><p>again working for swiss river adventures as a canyon guide raft guide,safety kayaker trip leader on both the inn and vorderhein.in the winter 2010-2011 worked as a lift operator for the flims laax bergbahn graubunden switzerland</p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span">2011</span> <br /></b>just started my fourth year with swiss river adventures ilanz,tessin scoul</p><p> <br /><span style="color:#ff9900;"><b>REFEREES</b> <br /></span></p><p> <br />For more information do not hesitate to contact me at the above telephone,number <br /> <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7750627577398749768-3400027067882506429?l=louishenderson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Louis Hendersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01708230724790341240noreply@blogger.com0