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Are women underrepresented in the outdoor industry? Working in the outdoors is pretty special. Spending your days in the fresh air, under the sunshine (hopefully!) encouraging people to discover their own adventure under your supervision. Not to mention doing what you love as a career, discovering new places around the world and having the freedom to legitimately travel for your job! All sounds pretty good right? So why then do these enticing job traits largely seem to be att

Hey gang, James here ( resident instructor , social media man and adventure writer) at Original Wild. Thanks for checking in on our latest goings-on and hopefully, by the end of this blog, you will feel inspired to get out and create your own adventure this autumn! Just because the temperature has dropped a little and the grey clouds have returned, it doesn't mean you should hibernate until the spring; in fact - it's quite the opposite! Each year, to mark the end of our pad

Business success in most sectors depends on recruiting, retaining, developing and motivating the right people in the right jobs. Teams that perform well together create an efficient way to enhance business performance, but many organisations overlook opportunities to exploit team potential – when was the last time your organisation focused on the team above customer or product issues? Using the outdoors provides a unique, highly challenging and stimulating environment within

Looking down at ridge protruding from the rough Atlantic like a dinosaur, we wondered how many abseils it would take to get to the bottom and whether boots were a good choice. It all started 12 hours earlier, driving south from Bath to Bosigran at the southern end of Cornwall. The mission: To climb the famous  Bosigran Ridge , a route steeped in history, first climbed by Arthur Andrews in 1902. The route went on to become known as ‘Commando Ridge’ after it became the trainin