I’ve been spending some time over the last few days flicking through photos and so on, picking out the good ones and of course ditching the bad ones. I’ve looked at the picture below quite a few times, but tonight I remembered something special about this shot. If you look closely enough, towards the lower [...]
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Well it’s been a rollercoaster ride for me. This year I have guided fourteen National 3 Peaks Challenges, weeks working on Skye including completing the full traverse, numerous days mountaineering in the highlands, over forty mutipitch rock climbs in the mountains, countless days building up strength on single pitch crags, guided a friend attempting all [...]
Read More...(Armonk, NY): I had been anxiously awaiting my next fundraiser, this past Saturday, October 29th. This date was carefully chosen to get the maximum attendance, but due to weather this unfortunately could not be. It is a bit ironic. My fundraiser was to help the Red Cross: US Disaster Relief and here my guests and [...]
Read More...Water played a big part in the Trek, everyone had to keep hydrated, so religiously we would have 2 litres available to us at all times. A fill in the morning, after breakfast, and a refill in the afternoon, just after lunch, and then at tea time. Electrolyte & clorine tablets dropping in to water after each [...]
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It’s coming up to almost been a week since we left Nepal and I’m definitely feeling ‘nepalisick’! I find myself flicking through my photos at least once a day, sometimes more! I’ve been struggling to put my finger on what I’m desperately missing…I think it’s a combination of being in such beautiful surroundings, the fantastic [...]
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I’ve had a few requests for more pictures of our Informa Yaks. Let’s face it they deserve at least some of the limelight. Each Yak carried roughly 50Kg of gear for 12 days. We started with 15 yaks and went down to 14 after we lost one yak to an eye injury after day three. [...]
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Shortly before we left for Nepal I had a call from Informa Group Marketing about an Informa banner that we were to take with us on the trip. I expected this banner to be a maybe a couple of meters long, you know, nothing too heavy or bulky. When I got the banner home I [...]
Read More...I arrived home at 3AM, Thursday morning. What a flight. Everything went smoothly except for JFK, my flight and 5 other flights were delayed and then, all came in at the same time. It was great spending the night in Doha. I skipped dinner and slept from 5PM to 3AM. This really got me through [...]
Read More...…the ultimate ‘city girl’ is having severe withdrawal symptoms for the fresh air and mountains of Nepal?! But it’s true…ever since landing at Heathrow late on Tuesday night and hugging my fellow trekkers goodbye, I have been surprising myself with emotions I didn’t expect to feel. Sure I expected to feel proud and relieved that we [...]
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