Why should people be interested in getting involved with your society?
 
We’re really just trying to get more people active, both outdoors and in other settings. It’s just a really good, full-body activity to do.

All of the walks that we do, all of the trips away that we do to North Wales and the Lake District, is really just get people outside, enjoying nature and out of their rooms.
 
For bouldering, we do trips to different centres as well as our local centre, Freeklime. It’s really fun for a sport, which means people get engaged with it and tend to stick to it long-term. 

We provide discounts which are available to anyone wanting to come on walks, trips or anyone wanting to join us for climbing, which means HUMS is as affordable as possible for students.
 
What courses does everyone study?
 
I do Mechanical Engineering and the committee members study Textiles, Games Design and more.
 
What is it about this society that made you want to join? 
 
I had done a little bit of bouldering previously over at Rokt in Brighouse a couple of times and I did a big walk last Christmas in Australia and I absolutely loved it so I wanted to get involved in more outdoorsy stuff with the University. 
 
So I re-looked through the Society list, saw HUMS and thought “That’s a bit of me”.

I went to my first session and I haven’t looked back since! 

If you had to describe your society in three words what would they be? 
 
Welcoming, fun and sociable.
 
If your society could have a celebrity (or fictional character) mascot, who would it be and why? 
 
Diogenes from Getting Over It.

Constantly falling, it’s ridiculous, it’s funny but, when you get that challenging climb, it’s just amazing.

What’s one fun fact about each of you here today? 
I climbed at The Adam Ondra Climbing Centre in Brno, in the Czech Republic.

Finally, is there anything people should know before joining? 
 
No matter how strong you are, everyone sucks at climbing when they first start, everybody’s in the same boat, at the start.

You’re still able to give it a really good go, see significant improvement over time, even in just a few weeks of climbing, and there’s always the next challenging climb, that’s just out of reach of your ability. There’s always something to keep on doing. 
 
As for the walking side of things, not all the walks that we do are super intense hikes, massive trips away up mountains, or anything like that.

We do walks every three weeks and it’s a mixture of well-being and society-only walks as well. You don’t need any level of physical fitness, or past experience, come along and give it a go.

I think you might surprise yourself.

T’HUD posts a new interview with a different society each week to keep you up to date with what’s going on in and around The University of Huddersfield campus – and maybe even get you to try out something new. For more society insights click HERE.