Meet The Team – Cory Jones
Our meet the team series – Cory Jones
Cory Jones is one of the co-founders and a Director of First Aid Training Co-operative. He has been a first aid trainer for over 25 years and in this time has trained literally tens of thousands of individuals in carrying out first aid techniques and life saving skills. In the video he explains why he helped set up the Co-operative.
Cory is also the owner of Outdoor First Aid Limited which he has run since moving to Scotland in 2010. This is an international first aid consultancy set up to help other organisations develop high quality first aid training. Some exmples of this are his work with Kingfisher Journeys and Adventure First Aid in Kenya.
Cory has worked overseas running expeditions for the past 30 years and speciilses in both mountain and paddlesport trips to wild and remote places.
Recently Cory has invested in his passion, and set up the Gairloch Canoe and Kayak Centre. Based in Gairloch he spends some of each summer guiding people around the Gairloch and Loch Maree in search of wildlife and adventure. This an the spin off business Highland Experiences has won. a host of insustry awards including –
- 2023 & 2020 TripAdvisor Traveller Choice Award
- 2022 FSB Micro-Business of the Year, Scotland
- 2021 Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards Hero
- 2020 Scottish Thistle Awards – Finalist
- 2019 Highlands and Islands Tourist Awards
He run
s Walking and Wildlife Adventures which specialises in taking people walking on the Torridon Munros. The picture isn’t from Torridon but from Harris!
Cory still finds time to do some freelance outdoor work for companies like Wilderness Scotland.
Cory enjoys open water swimming and swam across the Firth of Forth in 2016, and in 2023 he swam the Bosphorus.
Back in 2009-10 Cory with Martin and John Shipton spent 23 days crossing the Patagonian ice cap. This followed the original Eric Shipton route.
In 2017 Cory took six months off and with his partner Mandy, the walked a significant length of the Pacific Coast Trail and the whole of the Oregon Coastal Trail in the USA. They made a film of the adventure which can be viewed on YouTube. The film “He and She walk the PCT” was selected to open the Scottish Mountain Film Festival, at Inverewe in 2017.
More of Cory’s adventures can be viewed on his travel platform- Wee Wild Adventures.
