Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Frank Woodhead - Devon on Ashburton, 1966

7 December 09

I was an urban , city kid , 17 at the time when my employer the electricity boar...

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Jim Wyllie - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1959

7 December 09

I left boarding school in winter 1959 and my father gave me the choice of the Ou...

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John Anderson - Aberdovey, Wales, 1957

7 December 09

A most memorable moment... I attended an Outward Bound course at the tender ag...

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Matthew Marshall - Aberdovey, Wales, 1991

7 December 09

I grew up with the Outward Bound in my blood, or that is how it felt at the time...

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John Gillespie - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1964

3 December 09

My course name was U87J and I was in Watcons patrol. I was the only Irish boy th...

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Deborah Jarvie - Ullswater, The Lake District, 2008

3 December 09

I attended Outward Bound last year as part of the npower Green SOS competition. ...

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James Medhurst - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1956

2 December 09

I'm now a 72-year-old who attended The Outward Bound Mountain School, Eskdale, i...

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Adrian Street - Aberdovey, Wales, 1965

2 December 09

March 1967 Aberdovey. I caught the last steam train from Paddington, London to A...

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Monica Taylor - Rhowniar, Wales, 1972

2 December 09

Outward Bound 26 day course, was amazing. I already enjoyed the outdoors but was...

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