Myles has over 30 years experience of working in the outdoor sector and has personal experience of sea kayaking, canoeing, sailing and mountaineering in many of the worlds wildest places. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Tourism Society.
For 15 years Myles was Head of Guides & Training for one of the UK’s leading adventure travel companies – Wilderness Scotland. As well as his work in adventure travel, Myles has been a head of an outdoor education centre, Professional Development Coordinator (Scotland) for the Institute for Outdoor Learning, Scotland Manager for the Wilderness Foundation UK, youth development worker, and an adventure & marine tourism lecturer. He is a Leading Practitioner of The Institute for Outdoor Learning and a Coach & Assessor for the RPIOL, APIOL & LPIOL awards. In recent years he has become a consultant to adventure travel businesses and DMO’s around the world.
He is very involved in staff training, both bespoke and ‘off the-shelf’ products for practitioner and academic audiences. His main area of current work is in adventure guide training both in the UK and overseas. This includes creating the UK’s first Adventure Guide training programme. He is the UK representative on the executive committee for the Adventure Travel Guide Standard. He was involved in the creation of British Canoeing’s Guide Endorsement scheme and the creation of the Adventure WiSe course for the WiSe Scheme, the UK’s National Training Scheme for minimising disturbance to marine wildlife.
Since Oct 2022 Myles has been a Lecturer in Outdoor Learning based in the Institute of Science and the Environment at The University of Cumbria in Ambleside. He is Vice Chair of the Scottish Adventure Activities Forum. He has been providing certified LNT Awareness and LNT Trainers courses across the UK since 2007.