William Pike 2018 - Waipu Caves

The William Pike challenge award saw the students head up to Waipu Caves for their next outdoor challenge. This adventure was exploring the Waipu caves and also Rock climbing and abseiling. The caves are a very exciting and challenging cave system, which is full of tight squeezes, rivers, incredibly dark spaces and of course glow worms! This is one of the most challenging and confronting trips for the students, as being in the depths of the caves is a very new and difficult environment. The students had to push themselves in situations that they weren’t comfortable in, like crawling along on their belly through very small spaces. The second part of the trip involved the students learning about the correct way to rock climb in an outdoor setting and to overcome heights to abseil down large rock walls. An incredible trip with a lot of learning and challenges on offer.