![]() ![]() You started all of this after your bushcraft session, I feel like bushcraft is quite a niche activity, what was the draw for you? I spent a year of that out in Prague studying and that's when I really got into the soft skills, the philosophy and psychology of why we go into the outdoors, which set the set the tone of how I interact with nature and the world around me. I did a degree in Outdoor Studies, which was like three years of climbing on student loans. I picked up my outdoor qualifications quite early on and that's how I funded my way through university. I realised that there was a huge outdoor industry and that's how my career started. I took a year out and went out to New Zealand and by a stroke of luck or fate, whatever it might be, I ended up working in outdoor centre out there for for the year on South Island. So when I left school I had actually got a place at Sandhurst for military training, but I’d also got a place to study marine biology at University as well and I wasn't sure which one I was going to do. ![]() I just loved being outside and pushing myself, but I had no idea that a career in the outdoors existed. From the age of about 12 I was going off on my own into the hills behind my parents house and wild camping, which in hindsight is amazing thinking of me out there by myself with my little tent.Īs I got older I was very involved with the military cadets, I did a lot of adventure training and things like winter climbing in Scotland. Both my parents were really into the outdoors, my dad was a geologist, and my mum was a physical geographer, so we spent a lot of time going hiking around the UK. I guess I was really lucky when I was a kid that so much of my childhood was spent outside. You spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid, was this the catalyst for your career in adventure? Was there anything else you thought you’d end up doing?
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