Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Ann Cruickshank - Aberdovey, Wales, 1967

9 April 10

I attended Outward Bound school when I was 18 years old, 43 years ago. It was a ...

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Dave Ellsmore - Aberdovey, Wales, 1968

9 April 10

One of the many memories of a month spent at Aberdovey Sea School was the day at...

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Keith Newman - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1981

9 April 10

I was on course E311 at Eskdale and was in Scott patrol. This 3 week course chan...

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Robert Cormie - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1986

9 April 10

I have a very special and life long attrachment to the Outward Bound Organisatio...

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Hugh Meadows - Other Outward Bound Centre, 1956

2 April 10

Loitokitok, Kenya - December 1956. In December 1956, immediately after the end ...

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Alfred Briggs - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1960

1 April 10

Course U 53, from 17.10.60 to 12.11.60 My nick-name was Eddie Briggs. At age 17 ...

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David Sentance - Aberdovey, Wales, 1970

28 March 10

It was a force nine gale in the Irish Sea, waves were crashing over our fibre-gl...

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Allan Coleman - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1960

26 March 10

There is no doubt, as far as I am concerned, that the experience with Outward Bo...

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G J Williams - Aberdovey, Wales, 1958

26 March 10

I left school Christmas 1954 and joined the Midland Electricity Board as an appr...

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