A keen sports woman myself I love skiing and snowboarding, hiking and surfing and just generally have a deep and insatiable love of the outdoors. Born in the UK, a mother of two girls, I have lived here in the Chamonix Valley with my husband and family since 2015. Before that, since the age of 18, I travelled and lived far and wide across the globe. I’ve had many of the jobs that come with traveling: chalet host, bar work, cleaning, even fruit picking. I’ve worked in an old persons nursing home, on a birdwatching boat, I qualified as a snowboard instructor in New Zealand and spent a few winters doing that there.  Aged 24 I took my first IRATA ticket qualification (International Rope Access Technician) and continued to work in this field for the next 7 years, gaining a Level 3 (supervisor level) ticket.