Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Peter Howson - Devon on Ashburton, 1970

4 August 12

A month long course from the middle of January to the middle of February, as par...

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Stewart Christie - Outward Bound Metro, Glasgow, 1956

23 July 12

As an engineering apprentice I was sent to the sea school at Moray in Aug/Sept 1...

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Dewi Pritchard - Aberdovey, Wales, 1974

19 July 12

As an apprentice with the NCB we were given the opportunity to attend a week's c...

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Alan Green - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1962

19 July 12

I attended the months course at Eskdale in July 1962 when I 17 and a Police Cade...

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Peter Halliwell - Aberdovey, Wales, 1974

17 July 12

Below are extracts from my original Outward Bound diary (my log book) written wh...

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Robert Ellison - Loch Eil, Scottish Highlands, 1982

15 July 12

It was the coldest february in 1982 for several years, on the train journey from...

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Peter Tucker - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1969

13 July 12

I was on the same course as Alan and rember doing my tod expedition and being ph...

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Alan Jordan - Aberdovey, Wales, 1969

26 June 12

I popped into my old school, Outward Bound Ullswater a few months back and I am ...

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Steven Paul - Loch Eil, Scottish Highlands, 2012

13 June 12

Loch eil was an amazing experience for me . Because ther was lots of thing that ...

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