My name is Margaret Quirke and I am currently the Subscriptions Coordinator: Agents for Informa IBI. I have worked at Informa since 2006 after returning from a gap year travelling to USA, Samoa, Tonga, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
I want to complete this trek because it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and an amazing challenge. It will bring me outside my comfort zone and in to unknown territories and will make me push myself further physically and mentally to achieve this goal.
I know I will gain immensely from this trek; visiting a wondrous place where not many westerners have been and adding new adventures to my life experiences, leading to a greater self-confidence and a better understanding of social and cultural issues.
I hope to bring determination and high spirits to the team, encouraging everyone to keep going and being an ear to anyone who wants to talk about their experiences, good and bad.
I will also bring back to work the realisation that I can slow things down, instead of believing that I need to get everything done 5 minutes ago, this will lead to confidence in my ideas and opinions, other skills include team working skills, as I have been out of team role for some time now, and relationship building with internal and external clients.
Events like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan made me realise you only live once and if I don’t grab every opportunity that comes my way, life might just pass me by.
Doing this for charity gives me an even greater sense of accomplishment.
If you would like to support the trek by donation please click on the link below.
http://www.justgiving.com/margaret-quirke/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 [...]
Read More...Everyone said the trip would be life changing and truly it was. I didn’t blog much on the trek, but as per usual I still have a lot to say, and so retrospectively I will probably write some blogs of key points of my experience. For me the trip was a great time to reflect and [...]
Read More...I forgot to put on the last blog Thanks for the comments. I only saw them last night and I was really touched. I’ve only managed to blog a couple of times, which has been hard as you might realise before the trek I love to blog about everything and anything. Sorry I haven’t done [...]
Read More...We are now all back in Kathmandu, The team really pushed themselves on the return leg adding on a few KM each day to make the last day as easy as possible. Tony, our handler, has been brilliant, he really gave us control on how we returned from Basecamp. Not sure if Tony has had [...]
Read More...It was a hard slog on the way to basecamp. I was quite ill for most of the trek until I was given diamox as a last result in Ayre. pins and needles not a great side affect! Anyway as we are all steely determined folk we are adding extra kms to our return leg [...]
Read More...Hey everyone here in Kathmandu got the warmest welcome from steve matt Neil and Sarita . We went for a lovely traditional Nepalese meal (sure one of the massif will put up pics) then retired for bed at a respectable 10:30pm though me and jing ended up talking to midnight and missed the alarm this [...]
Read More...….of the evening of our flight to Kathmandu. If that makes sense. As I sit here i feel in limbo. I Wonder have the past 4 months been real? Have i really trained? Am i really prepared? The answer is yes and no. Yes i have trained. And no i am not prepared. Or rather [...]
Read More...Wow the past 4 months have flown by. Tomorrow we really do fly to Kathmandu! 14 days in the wilderness with a motley crew and 2 yaks for company! Wool whooo bring it on!
Read More...Last nights fundraising was amazing! I was quite stressed to begin with arriving at The Bowler (Bowling Green Lane)but once everything was organised and everyone was sitting down, we did manage to start the quiz at 7pm as planned. With the staff at The Bowler keeping an eye out for anyone trying to use their [...]
Read More...With little time left, I have just realised I need 2 items, an undergarment and compede for the blisters….and a special bottle, for not drinking out of but rather depositing in to. All the things you just don’t think of, (like not wanting to get out of your sleeping bag in the middle of a [...]
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