There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

Your disability is your opportunity.

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a youth to experience events which 'reveal the inner worth of the man; the edge of his temper; the fibre of his stuff; the quality of his resistance; the secret truth of his pretences, not only to himself but others.

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.