Well yesterday we held our third meeting. Only 111 days to go........
We have finalised our team and were introduced to the eighth member of the team..Andreas. We agreed to all create a short profile about ourselves and I'll post these soon.
In the second photo left to right..
Parveen, Stuart, Indy, David, Jean-Luc, Andreas, Jimmy ..... The "missing man" and eighth team member Qasim had cried of with man flu at the last moment.
Starting off with a presentation from the beautiful Sara and her colleague from ICE - Interactive Creative Management Ltd -First photo above... we discussed venues and ideas for our main fund raiser event in May. And, after this we looked at progress on other fronts... "Just Giving" page up and running - yep check !Power Circle fundraiser arranged for Tue 9th March -yep check ! Salsa night set up for Sunday in three weeks time - yep check ! T - Shirts to be printed - action Jimmy and so on...
Jean- Luc emphasised getting our jabs done as he had to take some ridiculous number - 8 or so.. and was 2/3 of the way through them. Surely that can't be right - note to Parve get on and check this quick.
I discovered Jimmy is great at baking cakes and has been getting his mates to help him bake birthday cakes at £40/ throw to raise money.... hmmm I might try one of those myself..lol
Stuart reckons we should celebrate with a Cigar when we reach the top... fantastic idea.. if we still have the strength to take a puff or we can light the bloody things in the rarefied atmosphere.. Hang on isn't he a bit young for cigars.. fair play to you Stuart.. I like your thinking ..
Then I decided to quiz Jean-Luc on what to expect in respect of the trek seeing as though he had attempted it before.
Showers/ bathing? Jean- Luc said forget it we would not get to shower for the whole week... What!!!!!!!!!! OMG... not even a skinny dip in a fresh water stream????? - NO!! we are going to smell like something unthinkable
sleeping arrangements - tents two per tent I assume..
Urrrmmm .... loo facilities.....don't go there... you just don't want to know.......
Food .....cool no probs, plenty pasta in the evenings, lunch bland, take some snack bars as treats...
Water..... plenty but take chlorine tablets or spend a lot of money buying en route...
Climbing the summit - last day - three layers of everything... and plenty of batteries as the cold temperature will kill them quickly..
Now the biggy...... Altitude Sickness and fitness... hmmmmm , talk about that later... suffice it to say , Indy is going to try to arrange a little trek this weekend in Malvern... I'm definitely up for that...
One thing was clear around the table .... we are all up for it, we are here for all sorts of personal reasons , but the determination in the air was clearly palpable.. Bring It On !!
Job done... off to Salsa !!
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