Clare has a leadership and development background from within Higher Education. 

Clare has a passion for mountain and moorland environments and regularly competes in fell races and ultra-marathon events. Although she has completed 5 big city marathons, she mainly competes in off-road races now. One of Clare’s most recent challenges was completing the world renowned Ultra-trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB), TDS race, a distance of 121km with 7300 metres of ascent on technical mountain trails through Italy and France around the stunningly picturesque Mont Blanc Massif.

Clare is also an active climber, hill walker and mountaineer and in 2003 joined an elite group of people to have climbed all the mountains over 2000 feet in England and Wales. She has also climbed over half the Munros in Scotland and is currently working on completing all the Wainwrights in the Lake District.

Outside of the UK, Clare has travelled extensively on six continents and has climbed mountains in Australia, New Zealand, USA, South America and the Far East as well as, across Europe.

Clare is a trainee member of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team

Darren is a keen property investor and has a corporate IT background in project management. After realising IT was not where his passion lay he trained as a performance coach, mountain leader, inspirational speaker and is an operational member of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team. He has a creative and entrepreneurial mind, which enabled Mountains in Mind to be launched. This combines his values of wanting to help others with his love for the great outdoors.

Darren is an active outdoor enthusiast and has run a number of marathons, including a number of ultramarathons, where he is best suited in the hills and mountains. He has an extensive hill walking, mountaineering and trekking background and has completed the Coast-to-Coast walk, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, climbed in the Alps and trekked in Nepal.

With his passion for the outdoors, he can be found spending most of his available free time either running over the moorlands around his home town of Buxton in the Peak District, climbing on the Roaches or skiing down a black run in the Alps in winter, through to climbing in France and mountain biking in Wales, in summer.

Have fun and stay safe

Darren and Clare