About Dorset Adventures
Dorset Adventures Ltd has been set up with the intention of providing a safe and fun experience to people to who want to get close and personal with the Dorset sea cliffs. Our aim is to provide 2 products- Climbing and Coasteering so that our clients gain a truly amazing day out by the sea.
Eddy Young- Director
Eddy has a massive passion for the outdoors! From surfing, climbing, mountaineering, skydiving, running and biking: he loves them all. Eddy started climbing at the age of 10 years old! Since then Eddy has climbed in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, Thailand, China, Vietnam and not forgetting the UK.
His hardest rock route was in Thailand back in 2009 and hardest ice route was in Rockies, Canada in 2008. In 2006 he passed The Mountain Instructor Award (climbing technical expert) and as a result he gained a massive amount of climbing experience in the UK Mountains and sea cliffs as part of the training for this award.
After a 2 year intense instructor training course with Bicton Outdoor College (1998) and getting the best practical student award at the college he came to work in the New Forest outdoor industry. After 10 years of working in the outdoor industry working for a different array of outdoor centres and corporate clients he has gained a huge collection of qualifications from the mountains to the sea and in the sky- Mountain Instructor, Beach Life Guard, SLSGB Coasteering Safety Award, BCU 4 Star Kayak Test and ‘A’ licence for skydiving to name but a few. In his spare time Eddy can be found hanging off a cliff, surfing at Bournemouth or drinking coffee planning his next climbing trip somewhere in the world.
Our Instructors
Matt. Matt passed his MIA back in 1993 whilst studying for a BSc (Hons) in Outdoor Education, which he completed in 1996 with 1st Class Honours. Since then Matt has built up twenty years of climbing experience including hard routes in the Alps and Dolomites, both sport and trad climbing in France, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Australia, and the USA. He has now settled in Southampton, where he continues his climbing experiences.
Simon has worked as an outdoor instructor for well over 20 years. He is a trainer for the RYA. He became one of the first to be awarded the National Pool Lifeguard Award from the RLSS, which he maintained for “more years than I can remember” he says. In its place, he now maintains the RLSS Coasteering Awardand an HSE 1st aid at work certification.
Joe has just finished a 2 year instructor training course at a local College. From this course Joe has acquired a massive collection of outdoor qualification and can be found ‘hanging’ around the Swanage sea cliffs
Amy has done the same course as Joe and has a real passion for the outdoors from kayaking to climbing. Amy can normally be found giving Joe some serious stick whilst climbing!
Joel is crazy about the snow and mountains. One of our most experience guides he holds the beach life guard, mountain leader and single pitch awards to name but a few tickets he has. Joel has his sights on becoming an Italian Mountain Guide!
Rob is our web site designer and our climbing guru. He lives local to the Swanage climbing area so maintains a high climbing standard. If he’s not hanging off a cliff then he can be found drinking coffee and designing new pizzas
Matt is a trainer and assessor for the beach Life Guard Qualification as well being a surf coach for the U18s at Bournemouth Surf club. He can normally be found in the sea with his board somewhere on the south coast.
