Jon Jones
Mini Biography
I started climbing 30 years ago in an old disused Limestone quarry in North Wales.
I first discovered Glenmore Lodge on a climbing trip to the Cairngorms at the tender age of seventeen!
Who or what was your inspiration?
I was always into sports and being outside. Going on camping trips with friends, hill running and kicking about the local quarries was the norm.
In my very early teen’s a school teacher identified my talents in the ability to nearly kill myself by mishap! Thus my journey to life long participation in climbing began.
Seeing Shelterstone crag from the Cairngorm plateau at the age of 18 changed my life, even then I new that one day I would live and work in the ‘gorms’.
How did you become an Instructor?
It all started by helping out at the school climbing club under the close supervision of said school teacher. Since then it is all I have ever done!
Tell us about a favourite route or destination?
Impossible to choose a favourite. In Scotland climbing on the Islands is always special, Shelterstone crag will always have a special place in my heart but a traverse of the Cuillin Ridge on Skye in winter cannot be equalled anywhere else in the UK.
The ‘Big Stone’ in Yosemite feels special as it was my first big wall..