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When was the last time you pushed yourself to the absolute max, tested your strength of will to carry on, persevered in the face of adversity and battled against all the odds?

Visiting the Himalayas and climbing Mount Everest has been a dream for a good number of years after reading books at the age of 16, such as Himalayan Climber by Doug Scott, The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner who have been a major inspiration to me. I have now made the commitment to go for it and live my dream, but also in the process raise a minimum of £50,000 for Charity...

Woking & Sam Beare Hospices

This is going to be a tough, challenging and at the same time a very exciting and exhilarating journey, which will push me to my physical and mental limits. I would love very much for you to join me on this journey and keep informed of up to minute progress being made with training, expeditions, fundraising, speaking events and other news on mountaineering and adventure.

It is also to serve as a means of Inspiring and capturing your imagination as to the possibilities of what can be achieved, just by applying ourselves and our minds and really having the self belief to make the commitment and go for it.

Join me on this unusual and adventurous journey, which will take us to the TOP OF THE WORLD.


The Adventure Travel Show

Posted by Trek Himalayas at 1/28/2008 01:06:00 PM

On Saturday myself and good friend Peter, went to The Adventure Travel Show held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.

Is was surprisingly quiet compared to last years show which was held at Olympia. For us being quiet was a good thing as we didn't have to battle our way through the crowds or wrestle our way onto a stand, but unfortunately this was was not so good for those companies who were exhibiting, given that they pay hundreds of pounds to have a stand.

Anyway it was a good show and I got to listen to one of my heroes and biggest mountaineering inspirations give a presentation on his past mountaineering expeditions and his charity work going on in Nepal, Doug Scott.

Doug's remarkable mountaineering career includes over 30 expeditions to inner Asia and is regarded as one of the world's leading high altitude and big wall climbers. He is best known for his historic first ascent of the South-West face of Everest with Dougal Haston, an expedition led by Sir Chris Bonington. However all of his other climbs were in the lightweight alpine style. Scott is also remarkable in that half of his climbs are first ascents.

Highlights of Doug Scott's climbing career include

  • 1975: South-west side of Everest with Dougal Haston, bivouac on the south summit at 8760 m
  • 1977: Ascent of the Ogre (in Pakistan) and descent with both legs broken at the ankle
  • 1978: Ascent attempt of the west side of K2
  • 1979: North ridge of Kangchenjunga (8586 m)
  • 1979: Ascent of the north side of Nuptse with Georges Bettembourg, Bryan Hall and Allan Rouse
Doug also founded after years of expeditions in Nepal, Community Action Nepal in 1999 to help mountain people to help themselves raise their standard of living and strengthen indigenous, community-based culture. You can visit the CAN website here for information about the work and support that is going on out there.

All in all the weekend was good fun and certainly an event I would recommend to anyone looking for their own adventure travel holiday.