UKC

Hello there, 

Slightly unusual question, but I wondered whether anyone could give examples of explorers/climbers/adventurers etc. using the UK as a training ground pre-departure? So, one well-known example is Hillary in Snowdonia pre-1953, are there others? 

Thanks! 

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush includes a passage on a rather bumbling (as befits the general tone of the book) trip to Snowdonia to see if they were any good at climbing.

I think I'm right in saying that Scott, Shackleton and other characters in the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration did no specific training whatsoever.

Possibly, although I thought they had maybe done a little training in Finse or elsewhere in Norway, so just wondered if they or others had used the UK like Hillary then did. 

I seem to remember hearing that there used to be a hut at High Rocks that was a also used as a base for the Everest team. The hut has long gone but there is still eveidence of it.