Our Aims
To provide the opportunity to enhance the following skill set for young people from all backgrounds:- Planning, organisation and fundraising
- experience of personal challenge and adventure
- Awareness of strengths, weaknesses and potential
- Individual initiative and independent thought
- Broadened Outlook
- Effective teamwork and leadership
- Sense of community
- Practical exploration and fieldwork skills
- Balance enjoyment with preservation of wild environments
- Formal reporting processes
BSES News
A BSES expedition to Greenland provides the data for a recently published research paper.
Information for those who missed the weekend will be available shortly.
UK Flight Disruptions
Advice for Extreme Arctic flights and those travelling to the YE briefing weekend
News
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- Anglo Omani 2011 Desert Expedition
- Tim Stott's Research Gets Published...
- Ye And Leader Andy Ruck Writes His First Book!
- Ye Briefing Weekend
- Flight Updates
- Fantastic Website: Tanzania 2004
- BSES Southern Endurance 2008 On Tv
- BSES Thanks Their Patrons
- Polar Bears, Walruses And Icebergs: Arctic Pictures By Wildlife Photographer Paul Souders
- Final Call For Young Explorers For Summer 2010!
- New Arctic Skills Course - Final Places!
- Life In The Jungle
- BSES Leader Running Marathon
- BSES Annual Gathering
- 2011 Expeditions - Current Line Up
- After Your Expedition - BSES Conference
- Tim's Cycle Home
- New Stores Facility
Tim's Cycle Home
After leaving the BSES office and leading on the BSES Arctic Kayaking expedition this summer, Tim Moss decided a flight was not the way to travel home and so embarked upon a mega cycle through Norway, Finland and Sweden. Tim’s blog entry tells the story…
My stomach was cramped and sitting up was such an effort that I had to lie back down immediately. It had been raining all night and the mosquitoes were lined up outside my tent. I willed myself out of my sleeping bag and began gathering my things. It felt like a gargantuan effort just to pack away my tent; my triceps aching as I shoved fists full of nylon into the sack.
Camped amidst pine trees in Northern Sweden, the nearest town was some 30km away. I wheeled my bike back to the road and wearily swung a leg across and onto the pedal.
Crawling along at 8 kilometres an hour, I toyed with the idea of hitching into town. Not, of course, that I had seen a single car all morning or had a plan for what I would do with my bike but it was an optimistic distraction. I tried singing to take my mind off the body-wide aching but the only song that came to mind was Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ which runs a little out of my vocal range. I mumbled my way through to the first chorus but it didn’t help. Two reindeer stood in the road. Why are they just sitting there? “Do something!” I shouted.
I conversed with my bike’s odometer: “12 kilometres. I must have done 12 kilometres by now”. I swore at the wind, which was clearly responsible for all of my woes. These things didn’t help either.
I don’t usually like to cycle wearing many layers – I hate the uncomfortable sticky feeling you get – but this morning I wore them all and still shivered. I thought of myself as Chris McCandless when he ate the wrong Alaskan plant or Joe Simpson as he crawled out of an Andean crevasse. The difference being, of course, that I was simply feeling a bit sick and emotional in mainland Sweden rather than in any actual danger. Willing myself on with audible motivational messages (”Come on Tim. You’re strong. Strong. This is easy. Come on!”) I realised I was on the verge of tears. It wasn’t that painful, I wasn’t that ill but I was tired and there was nobody around to help.
I resumed conversation with my odometer who had some good news to share. 28km down. First came the dull rumble of traffic, then came a junction and then came the sign: Jokkmokk. My town. My saviour.
This indulgent piece is a diary entry from my cycle home from Norway. It is written from an internet cafe in Jokkmokk where I am awaiting my first bed in a month.
Read more form Tim and see the photos on his site here - http://thenextchallenge.org/challenges/cycling-home-from-norway/
"The Object of the Society is to advance the education of young people by providing inspirational, challenging, scientific expeditions to remote,wild environments and so promote the development of their confidence, teamwork, leadership, and spirit of adventure and exploration."
As a registered charity, BSES depends upon the generous support of its Members, Supporters, Sponsors and Partner Organisations.
Our Objective is to take young people on expeditions of a challenging and scientific nature in demanding natural wilderness environments overseas to develop their self-reliance, teamwork, leadership and spirit of adventure.
We welcome your financial support for any of our projects or expeditions. We are enormously grateful to the individuals, parents, companies, charitable trusts and foundations that support us on a regular basis.
For more information on ways you can support BSES, please click here.
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As a registered charity, BSES depends upon the generous support of its Members, Supporters, Sponsors and Partner Organisations.
Our Objective is to take young people on expeditions of a challenging and scientific nature in demanding natural wilderness environments overseas to develop their self-reliance, teamwork, leadership and spirit of adventure.
We welcome your financial support for any of our projects or expeditions. We are enormously grateful to the individuals, parents, companies, charitable trusts and foundations that support us on a regular basis.
For more information on ways you can support BSES, please click here.
For more information on ways you can support BSES, please click here.
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