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Simon Enderby Tech IOSH Managing director, Up and Under Group
6th December 2019

When I explain what adventure racing is, I always says it’s a bit like a triathlon in the mountains. Typically it involves biking, running and canoeing around a course.
Martin Marmoy-Haynes CMIOSH, Health and safety consultant, JEM Safety Management
18th November 2019

My first experience of the Pennine Fells was at junior school. A group of us went on a camping trip to Hathersage in the Peak District: we tried potholing, climbing and abseiling. It was my first ‘outdoors’ experience.
Stuart Morris CMIOSH, Health and safety manager, Lancashire County Council
25th September 2019

I took my first parachute jump on my 16th birthday in March 1982. My father had opened his skydiving business in 1973, having done it as a hobby for years, so I’d been around the sport since the age of six. I’d always wanted to try it and was clamouring to do my first jump – especially after seeing my older brother do it. 
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Alex Guild, CMIOSH, Process safety team lead, Chevron
5th September 2019

I’ve been interested in flying since I was a boy. At the end of my second year at university I joined its air squadron and clocked up 45 hours’ flying over two years. However, you don’t get a licence at the end. I was offered an RAF commission as an engineer – my degree was in electrical engineering – but not a flying commission, so I took a job with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
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Rosie Butler Tech IOSH, Health and safety adviser, East of England Co-op
18th July 2019

I started rock climbing about five years ago with my brother, who is a year older than me. It was his birthday and he had asked for a climbing experience as a gift (we don’t do traditional presents). So, we went along to our local indoor centre and enjoyed an evening of top-rope climbing.
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Nick Cornwell-Smith CFIOSH, head of health, safety and wellbeing, G4S Policing Services/Lincolnshire Police
17th June 2019

I first went caving in 1972 while at school and enjoyed it from the start. It’s partly that you know you’re going somewhere not many people have been before, but it’s also the camaraderie.
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Jessica Grove, Student member, HS administrator, Peregrine Live Foods
8th May 2019

I've been riding horses all my life. As soon as I was born, I was on the yard! I can’t remember my first time on a horse, but you can start riding as soon as you can sit up. My mum was a dressage rider so that’s what I naturally fell into doing. I don’t think I’m brave enough for show jumping.
Malcolm Patrick Tech IOSH, director, Lincoln Safety Advice and Training, swimming
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Malcolm Patrick Tech IOSH, director, Lincoln Safety Advice and Training
9th April 2019

I used to swim competitively as a teenager, but when I was about 18 or 19 I dropped out and didn’t swim at all for the next 15 years. I was in the armed forces and there wasn’t a pool near my posting.
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Jonathan White Tech IOSH, director, J W Facilities
13th March 2019

I was very young when I started diving. I’d seen every Jacques Cousteau movie and at the age of 16 took myself off with my tent to Salcombe in Devon for two weeks to learn how to dive.
Drew Cook Tech IOSH, freelance health and safety consultant and mountaineer
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Drew Cook, Tech IOSH, freelance health and safety consultant
14th February 2019

In 1991, when I moved to Sheffield, South Yorkshire, I didn’t have a job. While looking for work, I met a couple of guys who introduced to me some climbers. I decided to give climbing a go and absolutely loved it. I got into various outdoor pursuits in the Peak District – caving, orienteering, mountain biking and running – and after a while someone suggested teaching. So, I went to Sheffield University and did a two-year outdoor education management course, by the end of which I had qualifications in kayaking and mountaineering, among other things.

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