Tania Noakes: The Length of Norway by Skis 8th December 2018 | Brentwood School, Essex Please make a note in your diary for 8th December 2018. This is when our ambassador Tania Noakes will be giving a lecture to Cadets and Reservists about her recent expedition to Norway to support The Ulysses Trust. You are invited […]
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The latest edition of our newsletter is out now. This edition contains the following articles: + Himalayan Venture 18+ Expedition report: 225 medical Reservists explore the Amazon in a canoe+ Expedition report: East Midlands Universities Air Squadron venture into the Guyanese jungle+ Expedition report: Cadets from Selly Oak CCF have adventures on the south coast seas+ much more…
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Our ambassador Levison Wood has been busy travelling across the UK, giving talks and lectures to share his tales of adventure and putting in a good word for The Ulysses Trust. Lev has been roaming the length and breadth of Britain with his ‘Journeys through the Badlands and Beyond’ tour. Lev kindly provided a rucksack
The Ulysses Trust’s Chairman, AVM Nick Kurth, was delighted to be able to congratulate the Air Training Corps on its excellent expedition performance in 2017 and 2018 at the Cadet’s Shackleton Trophy competition. Nick was accompanied by a member of The Ulysses Trust’s Application Committee: Squadron Leader Kev O’Brien RAF. The Competition recognises expedition activity
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On Saturday 29 September 2018 a team of 10 Officers from National Reserve Headquarters Royal Artillery (NRHQRA), based out of our HQ at Woolwich, and a Reserve Private soldier from 203 Field Hospital RAMC in South Wales, assembled in the town of Bohinj-Bistrica in Slovenia to do some adventurous training in the Julian Alpes. The
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10 Cadets from Bucks supported by four Adult Volunteers experienced on an amazing mountain walking week in the Bavarian Alps. The first day started very slowly with the cadets exploring the local town, finishing the day with a cable car ride to the top of the Zugspitze the highest mountain in Germany, with stunning views
On the 13th October 2018, 14 soldiers from the Queen’s Own Yeomanry deployed to Nepal for Ex Himalayan Fox; an 8-day trek in the Annapurna Region of Nepal to reach the basecamp of Mardi Himal at 4,500m. This particular expedition was a long time in the planning with the initial conversation taking place in 2016.
Exercise (Northern) Gozo Diver was an Army Reserve led sub aqua diving expedition to Malta/Gozo over the dates 06 – 13 October 2018. The aim of the trip was to train up new British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) Ocean Divers and to allow the qualified safety divers to expand their dive experience. The Ocean Diver
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It has been a busy period for the 4th Battalion the Parachute Regiment, from supporting our sister Regular Battalions on Exercise Joint Warrior to overseas exercises in the Ukraine and a two week Battle Camp in Sennybridge. So, what better way to reward soldier’s commitment and hard work than with Adventurous Training (AT) to the
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As part of the 2018 training year, eleven members of 3rd Battalion the Royal Welsh were lucky enough to have the opportunity to participate in adventure training in the Himalaya of Nepal and the Annapurna Circuit. We departed from Heathrow in the early hours of Friday 14th of September and arrived in the City of
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203 (Welsh) Field Hospital is an Army Reserve unit based in Cardiff with detachments locations spread across north and south Wales. The unit planned and ran Exercise Dragon Corse 2 which was a level 3 Adventure Training (AT) expedition to Corsica which ran from the 13th July 2018 to the 4th August 2018. With the
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Exercise DELAGO TIGER was the fourth annual Exeter University Officer Training Corps (EUOTC) expedition to the Dolomite Mountains in N Italy 22 August – 9 September 2018. It comprised 35 personnel, 9 x rock climbing and mountaineering instructors, 3 admin staff and 23 Officer Cadets and was based at campsites near Cortina and Canazei. The
Grand Canyon Phase. We never fully believed our team Mountain Leader, Maj Les Webb, when he told us about the early warning signs of an impending lightning strike. He briefed us that an early indication was head hair starting to go up in the air as it got increasingly charged up with electricity. However, we
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The latest edition of our newsletter is out now. This edition contains the following articles: + 25th Anniversary Celebration event+ 25th Anniversary Expedition+ Expedition report: ICE MAIDEN+ Expedition report: COCKNEY VENTURER NOVICE 9+ Expedition report: LANZAROTE LANDFALL+ The Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards 2017 [flipbook pdf=”http://www.ulyssestrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ulysses-Trust-Newsletter-Summer-2018-FINAL-LO-RES.pdf”]
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After close to a year of planning August and September 2018 saw 28 participants from Oxford UOTC headed out to Norway on an unforgettable hiking expedition. Phase One flew out to Bergen on the 13th of August and spent eleven days battling against the elements in the Hardangervidda region. Due to the high risk of
As the end of the OTC training year drew to a close an expedition to the world renowned, Laugever Trail still lay on the horizon for 14 Officer Cadets and Instructors. This was the first time NUOTC had run this expedition and the first time many of the group had been to Iceland. All bar
Tuesday 14th August 2018 saw eleven Cadets and three staff from Oakham School CCF depart for the Dolomites in Northern Italy. To add to the adventure, we had decided to get the train out so after a rapid Eurostar journey and a few hours in Paris, we boarded the nightly Thello service to Verona. Arriving
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On the 24th August 2018, Derbyshire Army Cadet Force set out for their first overseas canoeing expedition, lasting until September 2nd. I would firstly like to thank the Ulysses Trust for their funding help and making this incredible experience happen, giving us the opportunity to test new waters (literally) and an exciting journey with so
