Mountain and River Activities Limited, deliver an exciting, diverse programme of courses, events, and camps for adults, children, and families to inspire and inform you about the natural world. We create exceptional opportunities in bushcraft and survival, nature awareness and outdoor education for the general public, environmental organisations, events,  and team building for corporate, and private client groups. Our bushcraft courses are designed around a hands-on and practical approach, skills development, recreational learning and environmental appreciation, teaching not by long winded lectures, but by“ doing and living” with the skills. We believe that our approach enables each student to learn more quickly, thoroughly and ensures that they have the abilities to meet the challenges, opportunities, and goals of the training given, the end result is more than a collection of skills and knowledge but an entirely different view of our natural environment and resources.

Bushcraft and Survival Course Available from April 2025

These Bushcraft/Survival Courses run in the Bannau Brycheiniog - Brecon Beacons South Wales, are designed to give you an insight into what wilderness survival is all about, learning the skills needed to live in relative comfort in a sometimes hostile environment, using methods of our ancestors. Construction of brushwood shelters, finding collecting and sterilization of water, fire lighting without matches, introduction to collecting edible plants and fungi, uses of medicinal plants, traps and snares, game preparation, backwoods cooking, map and compass, survival navigation, river crossings, abseiling, S.O.S. The Bushcraft, Survival and Falconry courses are run in the

Bannau Brycheiniog - Brecon Beacons National Park.

Jeff with his many years experience as a survival instructor in the UK, Australia, Malaysia, Norway, became the lead instructor and trainer in South Wales for BGSA from April 2014 continuing through 2023. Jeff helped train candidates from various parts of the UK as potential leaders for enrolment into the BGSA. Bear Grylls Survival Academy partnering with Mountain and River Activities Ltd was launched April 26th 2014 in the Bannau Brycheiniog - Brecon Beacons at Pontneddfechan, Ystradfellte, Neath, South Wales.