KYRGYZSTAN HERE I COME

KYRGYZSTAN HERE I COME, Junior Survivor update

After my expedition last summer with the British Exploring Society, I came home inspired and motivated to keep going with junior survivors.  after seeing how much of a difference adventure and the outdoors can have on a young person’s life – build your confidence, push yourself out of your comfort zone, and achieve things you never thought you would do.   It’s a recipe for a life changing experience and that is exactly what it is.    

I loved it so much I returned home from the wild to civilization and applied for another expedition with them this coming year.     and after a few months of waiting for an answer just yesterday i got probably the best email of my life.    Next summer I’m off to the high altitude mountain ranges of Kyrgyzstan for 5 weeks.   I don’t know loads about it yet but it’s high up in the mountains and incredibly remote,   a sentence made up of words that are right up my street.  (base camp is literally at 2800 meters above sea level,  that’s hiiiigh).    This is an opportunity of a lifetime and I feel honored to be part of the team heading out to explore this true wilderness.   

the BES’s experts are life changing and even if you think ‘ah the outdoors isn’t for me with all that mud, and extreme whether and don’t forget  those wriggly bugs’  but the positives definitely outweigh the small handful of negatives,  and any way getting caked in mud is brilliant and very exhilarating.    We can all gain something and benefit from adventure in the wild, even just achieving something small like holding one of those wriggly bugs can give you a boost of confidence, or overcoming a fear – that challenges and changes your mindset.   the outdoors for someone who is having a tough time in life and just needs a escape from every day and the people who are influencing them,  being put into a different environment where you’re part of a team who are there to look out for and encourage  one another can give someone hope to see that there are people out there who care and who want to make a difference.    a lesson the wild has taught me is “what doesn’t kill you make you stronger”

So watch this place because soon I’m going to need to start training for my expedition to Kyrgyzstan, as well as fundraising for it.   So stay tuned to see what crazy ideas I come up with to achieve that.