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.
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.
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.
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.
Pupils participate in various stages of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, and the school runs expeditions to a variety of locations in the Lake District, Snowdonia and the Yorkshire Dales.
As Jackie and Early take a boat from the school for an expedition on the Kennebec River, we have reason to expect the story will continue in its largely realistic vein.
