A team of climbers from East Grinstead are attempting to climb the height of seven Everests in seven days to raise funds for mental health charities.

When I started climbing, my body became connected to utility for the first time in my life. I was spending time in an environment that celebrated muscles and health as markers of strength and hard work. My own body changed to accommodate more defined shoulders and arms and I began to recognise a new feeling taking root - pride.

With its boundless trails to hike and woodlands to explore, my adventure exists here for the next few months, on these trails deep in the hundred acre wood.

Sheltering in the 3 x 5 ft roof tent as a heavy downfall hammered the canvas, I had my first taste of van living in the shadow of the ‘Shivering Mountain’. A long and happy union with the Peak District began that weekend, and four years later, I’m still very much in love.

Representing a brand that promotes the pursuit of adventure and exploration has been an amazing opportunity, and I’ve really enjoyed sharing the Lowe Alpine ethos of leading a life on the move.

A couple of weeks before my 25th birthday, I found myself with some time to spare. Having seen off my notice period at the museum where I’d worked for the past two years, and with Nathan out of town for work, I had five days to fill and a sense of restlessness to satisfy.

Hidden in the Wharfedale valley between Appletreewick and Percevall Hall, at the edge of the Yorkhsire Dales. Troller’s Gill carves a deep ‘V’ between the village of Burnsall and the omnipotent peak of Simon’s Seat to the North East. 

In the last weeks of March, we took a trip to Albarracín, a small town in the south of rural Aragón. Tucked behind towering city walls on the curve of the Guadalaviar River, its quaint stone houses and sun soaked streets cling to the mountain side; a snapshot of ancient Spain.

Established in 1887, the three peaks trail undulates for 40 kilometres through the heart of rural Yorkshire, across purple heather moorland, under the great Ribblehead Viaduct and over the stone fell paths of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent. With nearly 5000 ft of climbing, the views of the Yorkshire Dales are spectacular from their summits.

‘Tides’ picks up where Nick Bullock’s debut ‘Echoes’ left off, with Bullock leaving his career in the prison service to pursue a life of climbing out of a small van. ‘Tides’ found me during my own time of upheaval.

Learning that the mountains don’t care for complacency, the hard way.