Trevor Massiah (MIA) works as a climbing guide and coach in the Costa Blanca, Thailand, Kalymnos and occasionally in the UK, Morocco, France and Italy. He holds the Mountain Instructor Award, is a level 3 BCU kayak coach and has been working in the outdoor industry since 1984. He began his climbing career in Pembrokeshire over 30 years ago and has since climbed all over world exploring and developing new routes in India, China, Thailand, Western Australia and the Costa Blanca. His favourite crags are Pembroke, Taipan wall (Grampians) and the Needles (California).
Naturally being a strong climber, Trevor Massiah got away with focusing on his strength to climb hard routes. The last decade or so though, he has focused all his attention on understanding and coaching perfect climbing technique. As a consequence, despite being in his 50s he is still improving! It is his passion to analyse people’s climbing movement and help them improve their climbing technique, thereby bringing their climbing to the next level.
Trevor Massiah has been a Director of Rock & Sun since 2013.
Over the years, Trevor has appeared in numerous TV shows such as Tom Daley Goes Global, Extreme Archaeology Channel 4, Don’t Die young, Time Team, and the BBC documentary Thailand: Earths’ Tropical Paradise. Trevor also works as a Health & Safety adviser and rigger for the TV and film industry and has worked for: Discovery Channel USA, The BBC, Channel 5 and Ginger Productions (SMG).
More recently, with the growing attention for the Black Lives Matter movement, Trevor has accepted Hazel Findlay’s invitation to talk about “Being Black in ’65”, and Epic TV’s request for an interview on the same topic. In addition, Epic TV published several instruction videos with Trevor Massiah: Are you ready for climbing accidents?, How to set up a toprope anchor, How to clip quickdraws, and How to clean the draws off an overhanging route.
Trevor Massiah is a full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors
Membership No: 691
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