OUR TEAM
The Passion Behind the Business
JAMES PAGET 'PAJ'
Assistant Chief Instructor
Richard Evans
Staff Instructor
Richard combines a lifelong passion for the outdoors with decades of leadership experience within the industry.
As a recognised professional within the Institute of Outdoor Learning and a fully qualified instructor, he specialises in teaching essential bushcraft, survival, and wilderness living skills. His approach is relaxed, fun, and always focused on the learner's experience. He uses the immersive environment of the wilderness to not only teach practical skills but also to foster key traits like resilience, decision-making, and self-reliance.
Richard strongly believes in giving back and passing on these vital skills to the next generation. He volunteers as the Lead bushcraft instructor for the Scout Association, Old Scout Bushcraft Club, and actively participates in other outdoor activities in support of good causes and charities.
He is now in a fortunate position to be able to combine all the elements of his life to provide outdoor training and leadership development.
Kyt Lyn Walken
Human Tracking/Staff Instructor
Kyt Lyn Walken is an Italian, Alpine-born, raised and based expert in Mantracking and Forensic Ichnologist. She is known internationally for teaching and preserving this ancient skill.
She is the Official European Representative and Instructor for Hull’s Tracking School (Virginia, USA) and a certified Conservation Ranger with Conservation Rangers Operations Worldwide Inc. (C.R.O.W.). Since 2015, she has trained law enforcement, military, search & rescue teams, and outdoor enthusiasts across Europe in tracking, forensic tracking, and tactical applications.
She trained and trains Personnel from Bundeswehr KSK, IX Col Moschin, Royal Navy, Royal Engineers, RAF, Royal Marine Commandos, Korps Mariniers, just to mention a few.
Kyt is also a published author of several manuals and essays on tracking, and a regular contributor to survival and prepping publications in the U.S. and U.K. Her work bridges traditional tracking skills with modern search-and-rescue, forensic science, and conservation practices. Kyt also works as Forensic Consultant and Examiner in cooperation with La Balistica Forense.
SEAN GRAY 'GRAYZY'
Chief Instructor
Grayzy has been serving in the British Army for the past 23 years.
Trained by several well-known community instructors, as well as numerous Army instructors in the SERE and resilience community.
Grayzy draws on skills learned from others and his military experience to teach modern methods of bushcraft and survival. He teaches around the UK with his team.
A well-travelled individual, he has used his skills around the world in many European countries, North America, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean.
Qualified as a CBRN Specialist, SERE and Personnel Recovery Instructor, and Skill at Arms and shooting coach. He specialises in short- to medium-term survival.
James is a British Army Veteran and now serves as a Paramedic in the NHS.
James has spent most of his life being fascinated with the outdoors and survival, learning skills to live within nature. This started from a young age, when he went camping and practised survival skills. Over the years, he has become an enthusiast of primitive technologies and traditional survival methods. Constantly practising the skills our ancestors would have used hundreds and thousands of years ago, and indigenous people use today.
James has been trained in primitive and traditional courses with well-known instructors within the industry. He has immersed himself in animal preparation and tool creation from the carcass, flint knapping, friction fire, wild edible plant identification and survival shelter construction.
Over the years, he has practised these skills in many different environments, such as the plains in Kenya, the French Alps in winter, the Scottish Highlands, and numerous other places in the UK. James has always wanted to pass on the survival knowledge he has obtained to those who wish to share his passion for bushcraft and survival.
