Expedition Reports

The expedition aim was to provide a group of Air Cadets from West Mercian Wing with the environment to develop personal and team skills. It was envisaged that the team would run much of the expedition themselves, the ultimate goal being the summiting of Stok Kangri (6130m). This would be mentally and physically challenging and, […]

The West Coast Challenge offshore sailing expedition left the port of Oban on the 6th August 2012 for a demanding seven days sail-training in the waters around Scotland’s Western Isles on board the Ocean Youth Trust Scotland 72′ Challenge yacht, Alba Endeavour. The crew was comprised of senior cadets, all aged 18 years or above,

Exercise Indian Tiger was the Army Mountaineering Association’s flagship 2012 expedition and significantly was also only the second time in 25 years that British and Indian Army soldiers had climbed together in India. The central theme of the expedition was to be ‘exploratory mountaineering’; we hoped to summit a previously unclimbed peak, in a little

Just before dusk on Friday 24th August 2012 a contingent of excited and enthusiastic cadets, from Greater London South East Sector, and adults arrived at Capel Curig Training Camp for a week’s worth of challenging and adventurous activities. They arrived with the aims ‘to successfully complete a Summer Mountain Foundation course for Cadet Force Adult

On 8th August 2012 12 members of Thunderer Squadron, 3 members of Typhoon Squadron and 1 external Southampton University air squadron instructor met bright and early at 4am ready to depart for a two week rock climbing and via Ferrata expedition. The expedition aims were to enhance leadership, teamwork, provide an introduction to rock climbing

In August 2012 a team of nine OCdts from East Midlands UOTC, led by OCdt Joe Holt ventured to Bolivia for Ex Illimani Sunrise, a demanding high-altitude expedition which aimed to develop the team’s alpine mountaineering skills, and climbed a series of peaks culminating with Nevado Illimani at 6350m the highest mountain in the Cordillera

On 30 August this year, a group of ten cadets and staff from South East London Army Cadet Force set off for Scotland to take part in an adventurous training challenge unlike anything we had done before, Exercise Cockney Peak Venturer. The challenge had two main aims; a) For the team to complete the 3

In mid August 2012 after many exciting training days, a group of 8 enthusiastic cadets prepared to embark on what would prove to be one of the toughest and challenging weeks ever. The training days took place on what seemed like tame tracks around Hereford, before heading up to the area of Maibe in southwest

At 9 o clock we met at our unit headquarters to be picked up by coach to be taken directly to Plymouth Marina. This was an exciting time for some of the cadets as some of them had never been away from their parents, resulting in a tearful experience. On arrival at the marina the

When the first team to conquer Mount Everest were looking for somewhere to train, you would imagine somewhere exotic with challenging and alien terrain much like the Himalayas. Instead they chose the slightly less glamorous option of Snowdonia National Park. Although our accommodation in the drill hall of a 3 ROYAL WELSH TA Centre built

Exercise Alpine Wanderer was a trekking expedition, through southern France, Italy and Switzerland, for one Officer, ten Officer Cadets, and two regular soldiers. The aim of the exercise was to increase the navigational skills, physical robustness and experiences of those deploying, in order to build self confidence and team work. All these aims were achieved

After almost a year of planning a group of thirty one Air Cadets and nine staff members from across South West Wales have recently returned from an extremely successful two week overseas adventurous training camp in the British colony of Gibraltar. The key activity during this camp was the open water Professional Association of Diving