Explorer George Wells (above), who visited Harrodian last week, first found his appetite for adventure through the Duke of Edinburgh scheme.
What sort of adventures can taking part in Duke of Edinburgh lead to? For explorer George Wells, who kindly visited Harrodian to meet Senior students last week, DofE marked the first step on a path to expeditions and explorations that have taken him to the Himalayas, Greenland and even the North Pole.
In the special presentation he gave at Senior assembly, George met and congratulated a number of Harrodian pupils who had recently gained their DofE certificates. In his talk, he explained that it was schoolboy DofE expeditions that first whetted his appetite for adventure. As a university student he visited the Himalayas, graduated to trips to the Arctic and then wrote his own name in exploration history by earning himself a place on a daring expedition that used snow kiting to set the record for the fastest crossing of the Greenland icecap. George emerged unscathed, apart from a touch of frost bite, which he described in grisly detail.
With our first outdoor expedition training scheduled for the weekend of 23rd-24th March, in the form of training hikes in Surrey and canoeing training in Molesey, Harrodian’s 2019 DofE season is now truly under way. If any participating students are struggling to complete required paperwork, they can find the support they need by visiting DofE club on Tuesday lunchtimes.