John joined Mountain Craft on its first guided mountain day, an open Nantlle Ridge group in April 2025. Since then there has been scrambling, navigation, Welsh 3000s, the first Blackout and a growing list of mountain days planned and completed for himself.

Four clients handed over their phones, cameras and GPS for 23 hours, without knowing the route beforehand. Experiment 000 was Mountain Craft’s first Solstice Blackout: a deliberately quiet mountain journey built around uncertainty, wild camping and seeing what happened when the usual technology disappeared.