Committee 2024
👤Name & role: Joseph Shouksmith, Chair
✏️Uni course: 5th Year Mechanical Engineering
🏔️Mountaineering passion: I like doing a bit of everything but mainly walking/trail running
❔Club member since: Joined in first year during Covid so mainly got involved during second year
💛Favourite club memory: Christmas trip in my second year and singing Christmas Carols on the top of Helvellyn with a Man with an accordion in the sun!
👤 Name & role: Ben Mclaren - Walking sec
✏️ Uni course: 2nd year Mathematician
⛰️ Mountaineering Passion: Walking ( obviously 😆 ) and a fair amount of climbing
❔Club member since: First year freshers week
💛 Favourite club memory: Chatting to people whilst the sun set on learn to trad
👤 Name & role: Peter / walking sec
✏️ Uni course: 2nd year international development with economics
⛰️Mountaineering passion: Hiking, bouldering and trail running (sometimes)!
❔Club members since: First year after freshers week
💛 Favourite club memory: Bouldering in Portland with the club this year!
👤Name & role: Joel Taylor, Orienteering Secretary
✏️Uni course: 2nd year Maths
🏔️Mountaineering passion: I’m mostly an orienteer but love a good hike or trail run
❔Club member since: Start of first year!
💛Favourite club memory: Being part of Bath’s second place team at English Unis Orienteering last year - looking forward to trying to defend that or even go one better when we host the competition in Bath this year!
Hello! I’m Jake, a 3rd year Chem Eng student and one of your climbing secretaries this year! I have been climbing for roughly 7 years doing a mixture of bouldering, sport climbing and trad climbing, although I mostly boulder. I joined the BUMC in the first week of my first year. My favourite club memories are from chilling in the gîte on trips to Fontainebleau. I’m excited to get some sick trips planned this year and meet loads of new people, so if you’re a new or an old member come say hi!
👤Name & role: Emma McCook, climbing secretary
✏️Uni course: 2nd year architecture
⛰️Mountaineering passion: bouldering, sport climbing, and some walking!
❔Club member since: start of first year
💛Favorite club memory: climbing and walking around the Peak District last year!
👤 Name & Role: Reuben, Gear Secretary
✏ Uni Course: Architecture, Final Year (4th)
⛰Mountaineering Passion: I am primarily a climber and trail runner (albeit a permanently injured one). Those have evolved from a background of walking in the hills... I even had a stint as orienteering sec 2 years ago!
❔Club member since: I joined right at the start of first year - Freshers’ trip threw me into the deep end in the exact right way and I slowly got more involved as time went on.
💛 Favourite club memory: Pretty much every trip ever! With the club or just with people I know from the club. Maybe Crib Goch in winter overnight on Christmas trip? Running marathons in the dark on night hike? Having epics in Scotland on ISB or DWS on Summer Trip? Too many memories to count!
👤 Name & role: Josh Nicholas, Treasurer
✏️ Uni course: 5th Year Physics
⛰️Mountaineering passion: I love to get involved in all things outdoorsy, but my main passion is hiking, whether that be long backpacking trips or hillwalking in the mountains.
❔Club member since: I joined BUMC back in my first year.
💛 Favourite club memory: My favourite club memory has to be Christmas carols on Helvellyn in my second year - it was magical!
👤 Name & role: Sam - Social Sec
✏️ Uni course: Final Year Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
⛰️Mountaineering passion: Though I’m predominantly a climber, I love being outdoors so I’m also very happy hiking, orienteering, running, or whatever it may be
❔Club member since: I joined at the very start of my 1st year and stuck around ever since
💛 Favourite club memory: It’s tough to choose but I’ll give it to the Font trip in my 2nd year, fantastic weather, amazing climbing, great food, and even better wine - it’s hard to go wrong
👤 Name & role: Adam - Welfare and Inclusivity Officer
✏️ Uni course: 4th year Civil Engineering
⛰️Mountaineering passion: I get involved in most stuff, but mainly walking (and scrambling when I can)
❔Club member since: I joined the BUMC to go on Freshers Trip in my first year.
💛Favourite club memory: It’s difficult to decide on a favourite moment! Probably the winter moutaineering trip in my first year. It was so different to anything I had done before, despite the rain
👤 Name & role: Ollie - Secretary
✏️ Uni course: Final year Nat Sci (Envrio Major)
⛰️Mountaineering passion: So I’m a walker, like I prefer to keep atleast one foot on the ground at all times and no bent knees (idk if you’ve been watching the Olympics speed walking). I’ll dabble in bouldering and go orienteering because it’s more interesting than jogging but really I’m in it for a long walk with a good view.
❔Club member since: First Year during Freshers week. I wanted to go on Freshers trip. Sorry to those I probably gave freshers flu to and for the absurd quantity of rice.
💛 Favourite club memory: This is tricky, I’d still say doing the Fairfield loop in the lake District on Xmas trip in my first year. Just the views. But that could quite easily become one of my many Thursday evenings down the pub with you lot.
👤Name & role: Ela - Media Sec
✏️Uni course: 4th year Architecture
⛰️Mountaineering passion: I am a scrambler at heart as I love being in the mountains, and also like to dip into the world of climbing. I get a real thrill scrambling along exposed ridges and traversing across rock! I am also a lover of trail running (when I’m not injured..)
❔Club member since: The climbing taster in freshers week! Although I got more involved in the club after summer trip at the end of 1st year.
💛Favourite club memory: Too many to choose from…but chilling on the beach around a campfire on summer trip ‘24 was a highlight…