Expedition Reports

Air Cadets have successfully completed an overseas expedition in the Swiss Alps. The challenging trek saw all members of the group complete part of the Chamonix to Zermatt Haute route and culminating in the ascent of Oberrothorn. The expedition was organised by West Mercian Wing of the Air Training Corps to provide a challenging physical […]

For our 4th annual visit to the Alps with the 1034 (Surbiton) Squadron Air Training Corps, we chose to go to Arolla in the Vallenois Alps. This is a well known, although remote high mountain centre with the campsite at 1970 metres above sea level. This year we had none of the luxuries of lifts,

After months of hard planning, with emails flashing across cyberspace, we finally gain permission for an expedition to Ardres, on the Opal Coast in France. And so it was that 41 cadets and 6 staff gathered in Rotherham to board a coach. The purpose of the expedition was to gain leadership and teamwork skills and

Kinlochewe ~ Dundonnell, NW Highlands. On the weekend of 10th ~ 12th May RM Cadets from all over North West Area attended Rochdale unit for the selection process to become a member of this years expedition team. Between 12th ~ 16th July the RM cadets and instructors from Bravo Company walked from Kinlochewe to Dundonnell

On Monday 15th July 2013, a group of 46 staff and cadets from Number 3 Welsh Wing left Gatwick airport heading out to the British overseas territory of Gibraltar to take part in Operation Red Dragon, a two week expedition which was the culmination of many months of planning and training. Situated at the meeting

Every year the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Army League (COMAL) invite cadets and officers from the Combined Cadet Force contingent at Lordswood Boys’ School to join them on their ‘Junior Cadet Leadership Challenge’ held at the US Army’s Fort Devens outside Boston. At the camp they join with 19 other high schools from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and

On Sunday 23rd June 2013, the Royal Naval Cadets from Selly Oak Trust School started our journey to Portsmouth to take part in The Tall Ships Expedition. Selly Oak Trust School is a school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties and it is the biggest school of its kind in the UK and also rumoured

This adventure training diving expedition promised to be both challenging and unusual for the members of 4YORKS taking part. The Warriors were (unusually) led by an all female Sub-Aqua Diving Supervisor (SADs) and Deputy SADs team, Sophie Rennie and Lynn Forsyth, who between them had 2500+ dives experience and previous Gibraltar diving site local knowledge.

It wasn’t always like this. When Capt Mervyn Jones, Platoon Commander, Rossett Platoon, Clwyd and Gwynedd Army Cadet Force first took his Cadets to the Somme in 2006 he could never have envisaged becoming involved in vital site clearance work. The Lochnagar Crater was an obvious site for the Cadets to parade. The Crater is

In June 2013 all eight climbers of an Army Mountaineering Association team successfully summited Denali via the West Buttress route. The team comprised four regulars and four reservists who had been selected from an army-wide trawl and subsequent training weeks in JSMTC Ballachulish, Scotland, and an exercise rehearsal in Saas Fee, Switzerland. This trawl looked

For the cadets and student PIs of Gloucestershire College’s Army Cadet Force Company, the end of May is the highlight of the year. Over the past 5 years, this has become the time for the traditional year-ending expedition to the Pyrenees in the south of France. This is a 12-day expedition providing the culmination of

On the 25th May 2013, 15 Ulstermen and women set off from Belfast City to Malaga to partake in Exercise Green Finn. Some of us had just finished our Recruits course or returned from Afghanistan. The activities consisted of a combination of hill walking and mountain biking. We didn’t really know what to expect, just

Local cadets from South East London had the exceptional opportunity to partake in a week-long adventure training camp in Wales, during the May school holiday. The cadets moved into Capel Curig Training Camp, nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, to push themselves with rewarding, challenging and exciting activities that many of them would never have