STRENGTH IN ADVERSITY
Frankie Tinsley picks up his phone, turns his camera around and shows the sickening view from his balcony. It’s a bucolic alpine scene straight out of Heidi, a skip and a jump from the Austrian border in the German town of Sonthofen in the Bavarian Alps. Up here, he’s at the pinnacle of his career, he says, though if you were sent to visit him in these postcard-worthy surroundings, he wouldn’t show you a particularly nice time.
The former Royal Marines Commando from Cumbria, 40, now runs an Adventurous Training centre out there for military personnel, specialising in resilience training.
“We’ll take people out and expose them in different environments,” he says. “Discussing their experiences afterwards hopefully gives them an insight into what they’re like in certain situations, and gives them tools they can utilise to help them to cope.”
Naturally, he practices what he preaches.
