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British Exploring Society

About us

British Exploring is a youth development charity that organises challenging scientific expeditions to remote, wild environments to develop the confidence, teamwork, leadership and spirit of adventure and exploration of its Young Explorers.

British Exploring was founded in 1932 by G. Murray Levick, a member of Captain Scott’s final Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13. Each year young people aged 16-29 are recruited independently from schools, universities and many other walks of life. They join together to take part in valuable adventure and environmental research projects in challenging areas of the world - in 2017 they will be taking expeditions to the Indian Himalayas, the Peruvian Amazon and the Canadian Yukon. These expeditions are designed to teach the explorers about the host environment, culture and wildlife whilst delivering worthwhile and necessary results for local and UK academic and charitable bodies.

Led by an incredible group of volunteer experts drawn from a host of professions (medics, lecturers, teachers, and the armed forces to name a few), the expeditions aim to help in the development of young people through the challenge of living and working in remote and testing areas of the world. Opportunities exist on three-week and five-week summer expeditions for Young Explorers aged between 16 and 25. Those 18-29 can gain leadership experience through our Trainee Leader programme.

Specialties

Youth Development, Arctic Expeditions, Jungle Expeditions, Desert Expeditions, Mountain Expeditions