Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Paul Murphy - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1979

12 February 14

The three week course in the mountains as a 15 year old Leeds morning paperboy r...

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David - - Aberdovey, Wales, 1981

6 February 14

I took an Outward Bound course 30 years ago; a path consciously taken to start g...

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Stephen Banks - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1973

3 February 14

I attended the April 1973 course at the Moray centre and still have some of the ...

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sonja briant - Devon on Ashburton, 1963

31 January 14

Hello I attended Holne Park the very bad winter of 1963 The girls I met were the...

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Francis Trevor Ward - Aberdovey, Wales, 1964

28 January 14

IS THERE STILL A HALL OF FAME REGISTER ON THE WALL? I THINK YOU HAD TO ACHIEVE H...

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Kaibana Zahqub - Ullswater, The Lake District, 2013

23 December 13

As a shallow 14 year old girl coming from the city, I was shocked by what I was ...

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Phil Kemp - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1960

10 December 13

I have read two accounts (from Colin Fry and Pete Maher) about the April 1960 co...

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Lee Beevor-Reid - Aberdovey, Wales, 1967

8 December 13

Whilst at Aberdovey in 1967 one of the exercises givento students was that they ...

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Richard Baker - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1976

26 November 13

The summer of 76 in Scott Patrol was THE very best summer for me. Round the tarn...

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