Latest News
SPA Training Course
28 Jul 2010 - Jason Beverley
We have one place left on an SPA Training Course being held at Distant Horizons technical training centre/Ullswater valley on 13th - 15th August. Please contact Jason for further details on 017684 86465
Distant Horizons Adventure Racing Series - 2011
22 Jul 2010 - Jason Beverley
New for 2010
Distant Horizons will be launching some new 'adventure' products to their existing portfolio of outdoor activity adventures during 2011. With extensive experience of designing, managing and running adventure challenges over many years Distant Horizons are ready to embark on extending their services and products to the Adventure Racing Market. Initially the Adventure Races that are to be offered will be within the Lake District National Park and involve outdoor activities including fell running, orienteering, mountain biking, open water swimming, canoeing, kayaking, abseiling, ascending ropes using cammed ascenders, lakeside cliff jumps, raft building, problem solving tasks and many more. Distant Horizons are taking a fresh approach to his market and offering events on a much smaller scale with fewer participants than some current events. Our aim is to minimise the impact on an given area. In addition Distant Horizons are able to provide an all-inclusive service for any given event as they already have a vast amount of equipment that enables participants to simply pay a fee which includes all of the necessary technical equipment.
Distant Horizons will be running during the winter months a series of training sessions aimed at adventure race competitors to develop their skills in some key areas such as navigation, mountain bike skills, tandem sea kayak skills, rope skills (ascent and descent) swimming and running techniques. Keep watching for further updates.
National 3 Peaks Success 3rd-4th July 2010
4 Jul 2010 - Jason Beverley
Distant Horizons organised and ran a 100% successful National 3 Peaks for a private group of 8 people for the London area during the first weekend of July. Working on a 1:4 ratio and providing all transportation, equipment, food and drinks and a high level of support, motivation and encouragement our team managed to assist the group to complete the entire ascent and descent of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis is a brilliant time of 22hours and 57minutes. The team were ecstatic about their performance especially as the weather on the last peak (Ben Nevis) was damp and breezy but this did not stop them in their quest to complete the challenge.
It was noted that a few other teams were attempting the same challenge in the same direction as us and they had a 100% failure! Teams were turned back on Ben Nevis and not allowed to continue further whilst our group descended like baby gazelles and those team members were somewhat disgruntled at this decision being made by their mountain leader who it would appear made claims that the winds were around 70mph using his little gizmo anemometer!!! Clearly he needed it recalibrated as if the winds were indeed 70mph then our successful summit attempt would not have been feasible! Experience, judgement and an ability to manage a group safely in a range of conditions was the key to our success on the day. Our clients had the experience of a lifetime whilst being looked after with a high level of competance of Distant Horizons quality instructional staff and guides.
Recent developments at Distant Horizons - Ullswater
15 Jun 2010 - Jason Beverley
Since the completion of our fantastic brand new technical indoor training centre at our headquarters in Watermillock in April further building work has been taking place to convert as series of existing farm buildings into a new office, toilet and shower block and also a conference/training room. These additional facilities will certainly help us bring Distant Horizons to the forefront of providing the highest quality outdoor development and training courses.
Completion is hopefully by September when we will be offering an extensive range of new courses and events giving us a very competive edge within the exisiting outdoor market. Keep watchng for further update and photographs.
Ullswater ‘Free’ Outdoor Festival 2010
27 May 2010 - Jason Beverley
Saturday 25th September - Sunday 3rd October 2010 Distant Horizons are once again providing a wide range of outdoor activities all 'free of charge' at this years Ullswater Outdoor Festival. After a very successful event in 2009 Distant Horizons are committed to providing even more activities to allow more people to experience the enjoyment you can have from participating in outdoor activities. This year we are adding some new activities as we now have our brand new purpose built indoor training centre at our headquarters by Watermillock. New for this year we are offering dry tooling (climbing using ice axes minus the ice!), indoor climbing and abseiling, SRT skills (rope skills for potholing/caving) and also archery. The programme of events that Distant Horizons are offering is as follows:
Saturday 25th September
9.30am - 11.30am Kayak Tour - Sea Kayaks (8 places)
12.30pm - 2.30pm Kayak Tour - Tandem Sea Kayaks (10 places)
3.00pm - 5.00pm Kayak Tour - Sea Kayaks (8 places)
6.00pm - 8.00pm Dry Tooling - (8 places)
Sunday 26th September
09.30am - 11.30am Family Canoe Orienteering - 5 family places
12.30pm - 2.30pm Open Canoe Journey (8 places)
3.00pm - 5.00pm Open Canoe Skills (6 places)
Monday 27th September
09.00am - 2.30pm Pinnacle Ridge Scrambling (4 places)
4.30pm - 6.30pm Indoor Climbing & Abseiling (8 places only)
Tuesday 28th September
9.30am - 3.30pm Mountain Navigation Training (8 places)
Wednesday 29th September
09.00am - 2.30pm Striding Edge, Helvellyn & Catstye Cam Walk/Scramble (8 places)
6.30pm - 9.30pm Night navigation Training (8 places)
Thursday 30th September
9.30am - 12.30 SRT Caving Techniques (6 places)
1.30pm - 3.30pm Indoor climbing & abseiling (8 places)
Friday 1st October
9.30am - 11.30am Indoor Archery (8 places)
12.30 - 2.30pm Dry Tooling (8 places)
Saturday 2nd October
9.00am - 2.30pm Striding Edge, Helvellyn and Catstye Cam walk/scramble (8 places)
Sunday 3rd October
9.30am -3.30pm Mountain Navigation Training (8 places)
To book a place on any of the events we are offering please contact the Distant Horizons office on 017684 86465 or email
