On Friday, Dr. Davidsen, a professor of physics and astronomy, was being remembered as a mulitfaceted person, a musician who could pick up a guitar and lead a crowd through two hours of doo-wop singing and who led high school expeditions to jazz clubs in Manhattan, a fly fisherman and a lover of his Harley-Davidson Fatboy.
I associated the Peaks with enforced bog-trotting - school expeditions in the rain, carrying a rucksack filled with Trangias, soaked tents, and tins of baked beans..
And good grades aside, the top three skills universities are looking for are communication, organisation and independence, according to research published recently by World Challenge, which runs school expeditions.
This trip will take us much further than the memories that surface of school expeditions to Shakespeare's birthplace and Chester Zoo, but what remains the same is that strange mix of unity and isolation at being packed into a bus with a group of 40.
An increasing number of children are traveling to high altitudes on school expeditions or school adventure holidays, and during family expeditions [ 2].
The firms themselves have no illusions about their high-school expeditions.
I first went to Germany Eastst and West – as a teenager, with my family, by car, on an expedition long planned by my father, to visit the family he had stayed with on a school exchange just before the war.
It's a luxury camp that looks a bit like something from an old-school safari expedition: tents full of antiques, looking out over the savannah.
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru (Penguin) is an exuberant saga of self-discovery in which a young half English/half Indian boy moves from the slums of Bombay to a Maharajah's palace to an English public school to an anthropological expedition in the heart of Africa.
