Welcome to the home page of Richard Tiplady Outdoors. I want to help you to move beyond your limits.

Wild Days and Wild Nights: if you want to develop your skills and confidence on the hills, I can help you. Whether that’s a guided climb to your chosen Munro summit, or training in night or poor visibility navigation, or an introduction to wild camping in the remote areas of Scotland. Just let me know what you want to achieve, and we’ll work out a plan.

Next series of night navigation courses: December 2025 – February 2026

Most beneficial was that I now feel confident in making decisions by myself when I’m in a tricky situation. I feel confident enough to go solo camping and hiking at some point this year! (Kenna, Netherlands)

Instruction was excellent, everything was well explained and it was a good learning environment, not worried to make mistakes, etc (Greg, Strathclyde University Mountaineering Club)

Wilderness for the Wary: maybe you look up at the hills and think “I could never climb those”. If so, then let me help you. We can do an introduction to basic hill skills, or a low level walk in remote country, or maybe an introductory ridge walk. You don’t have to go high to have fun.

Next Wilderness for the Wary event: 27-28 May 2026

As a teacher your emphasis throughout was not “I can do this” but “you can do this”, which was empowering (Claire, Brechin – night navigation course and ridge/scrambling course client)

You explained everything well and patiently and the small size of the group made it a nice environment where we could all ask questions comfortably and learn (Beca, Strathclyde University Mountaineering Club)

Wild Spirit: I find the mountains to be a spiritual place, somewhere that stretches me beyond my limits and my sense of what I know. I’ve written a short book about this, Following Jesus in the Great Outdoors, and I run mountain pilgrimages for different churches and Christian organisations. If you’d like me to organise something like this for you, get in touch.

Next Mountain Pilgrimage event: 11-15 May 2026

Enriching, insightful and thought provoking. Exactly what I needed at this stage of my spiritual journey (retreat participant, Kilmalieu)

Richard is confident leading all sorts of people on adventures in the hills. His style is friendly and encouraging: he’s great at enabling people to achieve more than they thought they could. He has long experience of training people for Christian ministry so he is comfortable having God conversations, especially in the great outdoors. He is a very easy person to talk to (youth leader, Scottish Episcopal Church)

Wild Leadership: I’m a leadership coach and over the years I have mentored and coached many people in their leadership development. I have run peer learning groups in the hills as well as 1-1 coaching sessions, and have taught on leadership at MA/MSc level since 2006. If this is something that interests you, let me know.

Next Wild Leadership course: 20-22 May 2026 (Early Bird discount for bookings before end Feb 2026)

The Wild Leadership course was exceptionally useful, leaving me with much to reflect on regarding my own leadership [and] resources for understanding the development of leadership thinking and practice (John, Hamilton)

The course design allowed ample time for reflection, which is so valuable. At big conferences, I end up feeling like a force-fed goose, stuffed with content and new social connections, with no time to digest any of it. This 48 hours of active learning naturally and easily made time for that (Claire, Brechin)