When I left you last week, I was just getting home from my adventures on the water – and when I say “home”, I mean back to my tent near Corfe Castle. So this is what else I got up to. First, I snoozed a bit and then stuffed my face with Pringles and chocolate … More My Outdoors: on dry land
The other day I told you about my first trip to the Altitude Festival in 2010 and now we’re fast-forwarding to my last. The year is 2013, I’m back at Altitude Festival, back at my snowboarding lessons because I’m still not capable of going out on the mountains by myself and I happen to have … More Stay At Home Storytelling: My highest ever paraglide
Last year I was briefly employed as an outdoor activity instructor. I didn’t actually do any teaching but I was paid for two days of training to enlarge my repertoire from just archery and fencing. The bit of training I was most excited about was climbing. I used to climb a bit. When I was … More Stay At Home Storytelling: learning to boulder
I don’t talk enough about my outdoors adventures here – actually, the truth is I don’t have enough outdoors adventures. In 2019 I’m going to have more of them, I promise. You may or may not know that I have an archery qualification and more recently, a fencing qualification and recently the opportunity came up … More “It’s an emergency. We need some salads carrying”
The year was 2012 and I was in Mayrhofen, at the Altitude Comedy Festival. The idea is to ski or snowboard all day and then watch comedy all night. A winning combination – except that I’m not very good at snowboarding and I can’t ski to save my life. I opted for snowboarding lessons – … More My first high-altitude paraglide
The first time I jumped off a mountain was my twenty-first birthday. I was in Austria, in the village where my parents have spent their summer holiday every single summer since 2005 or 2006, and I’d been watching people soar through the sky for years. I’d always thought it looked magical. And now I was … More My first paraglide
Recently I did an Adult Beginners Climbing course. I’m not technically a climbing beginner. I was taught to belay twelve years ago – caving-style, using an Italian hitch rather than climbing-style, using a belay plate, but even that came only a year or two later. I was taught all the essential knots – that is, … More ABC: Adult Beginners Climbing
I Am A Polar Bear 