At the age of 12 I started kayaking with some friends on our local river in a boat that was about the size of the titanic! I was wearing a woolly jumper my grandma had knitted. After this first introduction to adventure I took up climbing at school led by a young teacher who was a true inspiration to me. However, my career truly started after university when I had no Idea what I wanted to do next so took a trainee post at an outdoor centre in Northumberland. Over 25 years later I have never done anything else.
Wow... That’s a hard one to answer. Climbing big walls in Yosemite and in particular getting off the Lost Arrow Spire via a big tyrolean hanging 1000m in space.
Paddling the 3rd decent of a grade 5 river in Laos. We had been told unless we were walking on rock then it was a big risk to be out your boat to scout a rapid or to portage around anything too difficult, this was because of old land mines remaining from the Vietnam war.
(Type 2 fun often makes memories)
But there have been so many good times and fond memories made whilst being outdoors it's just so hard to really pick only one. Sorry.
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