Sir Chris Bonnington

One of the greatest explorers of modern times came Coasteering with TYF in 2005. “As soon as he walked through the doors there was this incredible aura surrounding him, his face was etched with stories. We were all quite nervous taking him coasteering, how do you show a man who has climbed Everest a great adventure?” said our senior guide Tom Iggleden.

In Chris’ own words he found it “immensely enjoyable”

Tom remembers it well “It was a great coasteer, there was a great swell running and we were blessed with clear blue skies”.

Coasteering can blow the socks off even the most experienced adventurer. The conditions are always changing and no one coasteer is the same, that’s the beauty of the sport. You don’t have to be an Everest climber to enjoy coasteering. Give TYF Adventure a call on 01437 721611 to experience it for yourself. 

Our head guide Tom Iggledon tells us about one of his favorite Coasteers.

It was a really cold spring morning in Wales and me and a few fellow guides decided to get rid of our fuzzy heads from the night before by heading down to a coasteer that we had heard had never been done. Strumble Head was our chosen destination. A beautiful area just south of Fishguard.

As we were suiting up the sun arrived right on cue and started warming our backs. The fulmars were gliding over the water and the gannets were diving far out to sea behind the light house. We headed down to the bottom of the cliffs and luckily the swell was not too big, as it can be quite a committing route due to the lack of emergency exits. We hit the water in high spirits where we were greeted by a cold shock as the water leaked in through through the seams of our wetsuits. As we carefully traversed from point to point and played in some interesting poor-overs we noticed that we were not alone, there were three seals checking us out. Making sure we did not disturb them, we carried on towards the end of the route. We were met with an opportunity to do some amazing jumps. Timidly all of us managed to complete the jumps down to encouragement and peer pressure.

As we were heading back to the cars on the coast path, everyone was buzzing. I started to wonder what had made it such a special day. It certainly was not the roughest coasteer we had ever done and certainly not the scariest. Sure we had some moving water and some jumps, but that wasn't it. I think it just came down to being in an awe inspiring place, exlporing a route we had never done and seeing Mother Nature at it's finest.

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