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"Learning to Lead…….Charged with this were 2 teachers with extraordinary qualifications: Di Gilbert – the first British woman to have led a expedition to the top of Everest – and Dave Rudkin, a young instructor and climber of supreme ability. Both were hyper-qualified, infectiously cheerful, knowledgeable about green things swiped from the ground and engagingly approachable. As leaders, they were pyrotechnic examples……..” SIMON INGRAM, Trail, December 2007
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"cherry-apple cheeks, Heidi-blonde pigtails and the brightest of blue eyes."
Hi Ginny, I’m Di, your guide". Di G, Respect! I say.
She is like one of those Tank Girl heroines as she
jumps into the bunker where the last
container is frozen deep and seemingly unbudgeable.
The pilots all stand around smoking, grateful for a break,
while Ms Gilbert hammers into the ice, wielding her spade
like a lethal weapon." GINNY DOUGARY,
The Times March 2004
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"There are certain achievements that we all
hear about and think ’Wow’.
At only 31 years of age, Di Gilbert,
has spent most of her life enjoying the great outdoors.
She is one of a select in-demand guides and climbing instructors,
who travel the globe, teaching people how to climb safely and
leading teams of enthusiasts to the tops of
some of the most treacherous mountains in the world.
Oh yes, she just became only the second Scottish women in
history to climb Mount Everest."
GARY FISHER, Inside Aberdeenshire October 2005.
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"In a testosterone – drenched fraternity of mountaineers,
Diahanne Gilbert is a refreshingly unexpected sort of leader.
No faintly colonial bragging from behind ice-beaded whiskers here.
Instead, I’m sipping tea at the home of a cheerful blonde
Aberdonian whose obvious link with the world"s tallest peak is the
hint of residual windburn on her cheeks" NICK THORPE, The Times.
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Di Gilbert, the blonde bombshell from Granton-on Spey,
showed incredible guts and determination to get up and down this mountain and look
after her charge, Jake "The Wonderboy” Meyer."
Stefanie Marsh, To want to climb Everest, you must be some sort of nutcase,
The Times June 2005
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The Association of Mountaineering Instructors is the representative body for professionally qualified Mountaineering Instructors in the British Isles.
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