OK , I still don’t have a name for this project yet but I’m working on it. I’ve started putting together a calendar for the next seven years to work out what the challenges will be and what fundraising I will need to do to hit my target for my selected charities and causes.
Below is the itinerary, massively subject to change, that I am putting together. All offers of support, sponsorship and joining in are well received. It includes running further than I have ever done before, sailing stormy seas, climbing mountains on five continents: including three of the seven summits and finally attempting an 8000m peak in the Himalaya. To have a chance of pulling this off I am going to have to lose, in medical terms, shit loads of weight as well as be fitter than I have been since my twenties. I’ll have to manage my own mental demons and my physical weaknesses as well and I actually don’t know which of those will be harder. I will try and do so without losing my sense of purpose or, more importantly, my sense of humour. A Lung ta wouldn’t go amiss either.
So, without further ado here is my next seven years*
- Cairngorm & Ben Macdui (Scotland) – January 2024 (Wooden Spoon)
- Toubkal (Maroc) – February 2024 (Sheldrick Wildlife Trust)
- Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa) – July 2024 (Sheldrick Wildlife Trust)
- Titsey Trail 10K (UK) – 2025 (Caring For Animals)
- Le Marathon des chateaux du Medoc (France) – 2025 (Sheldrick Wildlife Trust)
- The Lewa Marathon (Kenya, Africa) – 2025 (Tusk)
- Cumbria Three Peaks (UK) – 2025 (Lighthouse Club & Caring For Animals)
- Aconcagua (Argentina, South America) – 2026 (Wooden Spoon)
- South Georgia Challenge (South Georgia, Antarctica) – 2027 (Wooden Spoon)
- Cho Oyu (Nepal, Asia) – 2028 (Community Action Nepal)
If you are interested in joining me for any of these challenges, which are all self funded, not paid for by fundraising, or in supporting/sponsoring the efforts then please contact me via this website. So, while I am still planning and trying to come up with a bloody name for this great adventure I will leave you with the following:
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
*absolutely the final draft (bloody covid/putin/money/time)
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