World Challenge is a for-profit UK provider of overseas adventure travel programs targeted at schools.
The company was founded when a young army captain took a team of soldiers on a training mission to the snow-capped Hindu Kush mountain range in Pakistan in 1985.
A newer offering from World Challenge is the Journey product focusing on global citizenship and cultural literacy.
[2] A report commissioned by Buckinghamshire County Council found the student fell after slipping on a tree root during a storm and her death was ruled to be an accident.
Both Buckinghamshire Council and the student's parents criticized the planning and risk assessment of the climb up Mount Fansipan, Vietnam's highest peak, saying that the group leaders did not have any knowledge of the route and should have turned back when they found the route was more steep, exposed and treacherous than they had expected - something that multiple students on the trek had expressed unease about.
[6] At an inquest into the student's death, a teacher on the expedition claimed that a World Challenge ground agent that she had called for help during the incident had later told her; "You can’t say you had a guide because I could be held responsible and I could go to prison".