Louise Turner

Mountaineer and writer

Louise Turner is a mother, mountaineer, IFMGA Guide, speaker, occasional writer and full time teacher.

Twenty years ago Louise met her husband Mike ‘Twid’ Turner in a snow hole in Scotland. Together they began a continuing adventure. Motivated not by Trophy Mountains but by beauty and technicality they have made first ascents of vertical walls in Baffin, Borneo, Britain, Greenland, Jordan, Madagascar, Mali, Norway, Pakistan, Patagonia and Venezuela. Louise is passionate about climbing on rock and ice and in the mountains. She has climbed throughout Britain from Orkney to Lands End and continued on through Europe and beyond to Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

Louise worked at Plas Y Brenin, the National Mountaineering centre, for 18 years where she became the first and only female Chief Instructor. She is one of 6 female British Mountain Guides and has also found time to write regularly for the climbing press. She has also been a Vice President of the British Mountaineering Council.

Turner has now embarked on a new adventure as a proud mum living in Switzerland and working for Aiglon College.