The park that I am lucky to live next to has never been more busy than during the pandemic.

People with children often are unable to go to school, living in small flats and no gardens

have been desperate to get out, something that was a problem even before Covid hit.

75% or 80% of young people spend less than an hour a day outdoors a day, so if you think

about it, prisoners do spend an hour outside a day compulsorily. That's something that for me we're just failing.

But getting out can mean getting on. Access to the wide outdoors and testing himself against nature help one young man find himself.

Getting to the top of that mountain and just looking down and actually realising how far we come.

Not just in terms of how far we climb, but just also as a team and how much we'd support each other.

Joshua is realising his potential and gives credit to the lakes, rivers, mountain tops and moorlands of Britain.

So how does that transformation happen?

In the short space of four weeks at an outward bound school, a young person is given the maximum opportunity for developing his whole self.

You're listening to stories of our times, the times of the Sunday times, I'm David Aronovich.

Today, Joshua's story, climbing the mountain top.

I've been my final year at Cambridge, third year studying human social and political sciences,

specialising in politics and international relations.

I was actually born in Dublin when we lived there for a little while.

And then I moved over, and that's pretty young, about three or four perhaps, raised in Southeast London.

I'm talking to Joshua Adiyami, who grew up about as far as you can get from fields and farmland.

In between Kensington and Canberra, on account of the state, I went to a homeschool in North Brickston.

Were you confident, boy?

So with a hint of cheek, it's quite funny because I avoided getting in a bit of trouble here and there,

just because I was able to talk one way out of things, apologise at the right time and de-escalate the situation,

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