A flavour for those who don’t know what I’m doing

26 months ago…

A friend said that he’d seen this plateau on MT Everest that was big enough to have a cricket match, and he’d be surprised if there was anywhere higher of this size and it would probably be a world record altitude for sport… 16, 945ft

18 months ago…

He was odd jobbing doing landscape gardening and I was fed up with just being another idea no-one did anything with

12 months ago…

We launched the more formalised idea…

Next week…

An expedition of 50 people leaves Britain

A total expedition party of 90 people will set off on a 14 day expedition on Everest

With the aim of setting a world record altitude for sport… …in the Nokia Maps Everest Test

A flavour of the scale…

Milestones

• 100 applications in 10 days through word of mouth

• 47 Completely self sufficient skilled participants funding their costs

• 1 fully utilised partner programme of 20 partner companies

• 1 legacy spanning 2 countries

The expedition

• 30 players• 4 umpires• 16 Guides• 16 Porters• 4 Government liaison officers• 3 Security • 3 Embedded media• 4 Camera / film crew• 8 Support/cheerleaders

Central technical kit

• 4 laptops• 1 router / wireless network• 12 radios• 3 sat phones• 10 Stills cameras• 2 Canon XH A1 video cameras• 6 Nokia latest handsets• 13 Solar charger packs• 2 GPS trackers• 1 generator• And a whole load of licenses

Central playing kit

• 1 ‘portable’ Wicket

• 5 Bats

• 6 Helmets

• 4 sets Batting Pads

• 4 sets Batting Gloves

• 2 sets Wicket Keeping equipment

• 30 pink Balls

A flavour of our partners…

A flavour of our training…

A flavour of our fundraising…

A flavour of our what’s in store…

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A flavour of how you can follow us…

A flavour of the legacy…

A flavour of how you can help this legacy…

Justgiving.com/garethoneverest

All donations to charity – we’ve covered our costs

Highs

• Experiences and friendship

• The buzz from seeing something grow

• The thrill of seeing people develop

• Learning about myself

• Medical teams

• Getting the brands on board

Lows

• Fully experiencing ego and agenda

• Realisation that some friends are slackers!

• A real threat in chronic fatigue

• People no longer going

• Recession

But really they are highs…

Experiences to date

• Leadership• Media spotlight! • Training again• Really learning to network• Management • Standing on stairs of the plane!• Schools and charities• Personalities • Learning how to work with people in an

emotional and pressurised environment

Any questions?