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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.


In search of a Mannaquin...!?

Posted by Trek Himalayas at 2/04/2008 03:32:00 pm

Well the weekend has been and gone, after spending my time designing some t-shirts that I plan on selling to help raise money for the charity cause and my sponsorship. The range will be called "Tough at the Top" which will have some very interesting and suggestive designs on them.. so look out for those.. I do expect you to buy one or two!!

I am in preperations for this coming Saturday for the fundraising stand in Bisley to create awareness and raise money for the charity cause. I have also managed to get Snow & Rock in Chertsey to provide me some high altitude mountaineering kit to have displayed on the stand. This will show people the kind of equipment that is used to climb any high altitude mountain. So in case you were wondering, what the hell the title was all about.. now you know.. I need it to display the equipment.. and not because I have some weird fascination with wanting to take it everywhere with me on the back of my motorbike (not that I have one) as portrayed in the 1987 film of the same name "Mannequin".

So earlier today I went around Woking town centre visiting all the clother shops on the hunt for my model dummy!! Finally after about 20 minutes of getting some very strange looks from shop assistants, wondering what the hell I wanted to do with a large piece of plastic in the shape of a man..!! Lisa in Debenhams kindly agreed to loan me one for the Saturday.

I expect to get some even stranger looks on Friday when I collect it, then stroll through Woking town centre with it under my arm like some surfer dude with his board and sex wax. Mind you I have no idea where I will get the sex wax from??!!

But hopefully this weekend will be a success, with Woking News & Mail coming along for some photos for a write up in the following weeks paper. So hopefully we shoul raise quite a bit of money.

Speak again soon.. and happy adventures.

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