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Climbing mountains or climbing the walls
Category: Mental Health
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Four and a half hours later, back at the car, a quick change into comfy trainers (not better feeling) and I had one last coffee standing breathing in the mountain air before closing the boot , jumping in the driver seat and heading for home…. Monday – best day ever!
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quite simply the most amazing trip of out lives as we toured 5 US states and visited 6 of the most famous national parks during a loping 3000 mile road trip around the Colorado river basin
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It’s a new year and getting outside is only a few steps away – especially with a forest and castle on my doorstep
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every Social media post of my friends and contacts out adventuring which one enthralled and inspired me now created jealousy, resentment and more self loathing
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the journey in life echos the climbs.. the plans (or lack of), the decisions that need to be made, the sacrifices, the mistakes
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I’m sat on my sofa staring at a pair of expedition boots I bought a few weeks ago. They were bought for two planned expeditions – Mont Blanc and Island Peak. Yet now I have no hope of getting there.
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Everyone was just doing their thing, and connecting around the common purpose….climbing.
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Team Fortitude was set up with the sole aim of raising funds for Rock 2 Recovery. R2R is an amazing organization that works with servicemen/women/veterans and their families affected by PTSD/MBTI’s.
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This land unchanged for millennia, carved over eons of ice, rain and wind. The deer and birds running and flying paths led by their ancestors for time untold.
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Yet, I regards myself as a very lucky person, I have studied my demons, I’ve kept these ‘mental’ enemies close