Call to Adventure

Call to Adventure: guided treks and climbs booked from the UK

Call to Adventure is a UK adventure travel operator that sells small-group trips built around trekking, mountaineering and multi-activity itineraries. The company presents itself as a team of outdoor enthusiasts and travellers, and its catalogue spans destinations in the UK, Morocco, Nepal, Tanzania and Iceland, among others. Trips are guided by local experts that the company describes as fully qualified and hand-picked after an assessment process.

The stated aim is to remove the planning burden from customers: most itineraries bundle guiding, accommodation, transfers and equipment so that participants only have to turn up. The company also publishes gear reviews and how-to articles alongside its tour listings.

Trip types in the catalogue

The site organises its adventures into six categories, each with a stated number of departures:

• Hiking & Trekking — 35 adventures
• Climbing & Mountaineering — 8 adventures
• Multi-Activity — 7 adventures
• Snow / Skiing — 5 adventures
• Water based — 5 adventures
• Yoga — 1 adventure

Featured itineraries and prices

The catalogue highlighted a set of best-selling trips at the time of writing, with per-person prices in pounds sterling and review scores shown on the site:

• National 3 Peaks 24-Hour Challenge with accommodation, UK — two nights, rated 4.9 from 125 reviews, £524 per person.
• National 3 Peaks 24 Hours Challenge, UK — three days, rated 4.9 from 129 reviews, £399 per person.
• Mount Toubkal Trek, Atlas Mountains, Morocco — four days, rated 4.9 from 127 reviews, £379 per person.
• Mount Toubkal Winter Trek, Atlas Mountains, Morocco — four days, rated 5.0 from 127 reviews, £449 per person.
• Everest Base Camp Trek, Everest region, Nepal — 14 days, rated 5.0 from 634 reviews, £1,169 per person.
• Climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Lemosho Route, Tanzania — nine days including a seven-day route, rated 4.9 from 34 reviews, £1,759 per person.
• Climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Machame Route, Tanzania — nine days including a seven-day route, rated 4.9 from 34 reviews, £1,759 per person.
• Surfing, Coasteering & Luxury Wild Camping, Newquay, UK — three days, rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, £289 per person.

Other trips named in customer accounts include the Thorsmork Glacier Valley Trek in Iceland, the Laugavegur Hut to Hut Hike, an Introduction to Ski Touring in Chamonix and a winter skills course on Ben Nevis.

Booking conditions and guarantees

The company sets out several commercial terms on its site. Customers can pay in full or leave a deposit and spread the remaining balance at no extra cost, selecting the option at checkout. Date changes are permitted free of charge up to 65 days before departure. Bookings are also described as covered by a satisfaction guarantee associated with the founder, George.

On the environmental side, the company states that 1% of all revenue, not profit, is directed to environmental and social projects.

Origins and team

The business traces its start to its founder, George Beesley, who cycled more than 14,000 km from Alaska to Panama with wild camping along the route before setting up the company. The site frames the venture around the idea that adventure is a state of mind accessible close to home as well as far away.

Beyond the founder, the published team includes a booking and operations manager and a group of editorial contributors who produce the adventure journal, gear reviews and how-to content.

Customer feedback shown on the site

Testimonials reproduced on the site cover the National 3 Peaks challenge, the Thorsmork Glacier Valley Trek, the Laugavegur Trek, coasteering in Newquay, ski touring in Chamonix and a winter skills course on Ben Nevis. Reviewers comment on the clarity of pre-trip information, the professionalism of mountain guides, the quality of transport and accommodation, and the handling of a participant injury on one departure. These are individual accounts rather than an aggregate assessment.