It is a job most often seasonal that made of the Moutain Leader a pluriactif, having to to exercise a sometimes main or supplementary activity the interseason: ski monitor, teacher, pisteur-first-aid worker, animator, artisan, farmer...
It is a man, but also often a woman, who chose to live her passion in the mountain and to share it with the visitors of her Valley.
It is a job in the numerous facets, a job of contacts and areas.
Its certificate permit to him to drive and to supervise persons against remuneration, in the mountain, with the exception of rocks, glaciers and fields requiring for progress the use of the equipment or of the technology of the mountaineering.
He enlivens and teaches on all knowledge and know-how of mountain middle.
He takes care of all organisation of a walking: security, route... Its pedagogic competences adapted to the children and to the adults, just as to the groups or to the individual, its dynamism and the enthusiasm of its purposes when he speaks about his "country" or when he narrates traditions and legends, confer another dimension on landscapes and on people met throughout tracks.
It is a Professional of the mountain in the service of nature and public that comes to her. He is happy when he has feeling to have put the mountain in holiday, as well as court of the one that approaches him.
First of all, it is necessary to achieve the GRADING. This examination includes different noted tests: a walk of 7/8 hours with a 10 kg backpack, a course of ease on various ground, a running of direction, a maintenance. It is necessary to be holder of the B.N.P.S. (National Patent of First Help) and to have Common origin Mountain or General Common origin (160 hours of training) to See with D.D.J.S. Three units of training follow: 1-fundamental Knowledge: Lasted 80 hours. It contains an animation test and of group behaviour, security on mountain ground and direction, navigation, knowledge of mountain middle and legislation. 2-summer Natural environment: Lasted 40 hours. This training contains a deepening and a bet in accordance with knowledge acquired with a specific training on questions relating to the promotion of occupation. 3-Medium snowy mountain: Lasted 60 hours. This training includes 3 tests among which an approach of medium snowy mountain, knowledge there nivologie and in the domains of security, a progress on easy snowy ground, Nordic type, notably with the aid of rackets and an eliminatory test of navigation.
The candidate must follow an internship later in situation constituted by a period of work experience and accomplish to min 20 days of walking of which more half in the same region, 6 days minimum including at least an exit of 2 days to have passed with a tenured professional of one of the certificates of the State patent of Mountaineering.
Final examination includes: a written test (the candidate writes a document about the specific aspects of the introduced region), an oral examination (concerning the document written by the candidate), a test of supervision on the ground: concerning animation and behaviour of group in security, as well as observation and knowledge of middle.
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