Hillsy envisages...

Morning Richie, morning all. Wes gave me a call on Monday in trepidation of meeting the Daddy of Qatar Airways. Hope he has his shmoozing hat on and that he understands what we're up to. I'd buy the whole Everest Test Committee's passion if nothing else. 

He asked me to do an artistic impression of the event in a few seconds to give the man a bit of a taster. 'Get him moist' was the brief to be precise. I included the main ingredients of most people's vision i think... mountainous backdrop, clear blue skies, extraordinary plateau where you wouldn't expect one, a sponsored wicket. 

Course it will probably be blowing a hoolie when we're there. Whatever the weather, the little task got me thinking, and perhaps a little damp in certain areas. 

So this is a blog hey. Hmmm.

I've got a pretty decent debut entry for y'all. A very pleasant young fellow has called me from the West Sussex County Times asking about the Test Above The Rest. How the wild fire has spread through Surrey and down into the Sussex jungle i'm not sure (especially as this sh*t makes Cambodia look like Kansas) but sure enough Kirt's name was mentioned as expected. A few beers down and the Everest Group had a contact in the South in Yours Truly.

We chin-wagged about the fundraising, the sponsorship, the logistics, the fitness, and most of all the inspiration for doing this extraordinary thing. So i dutifully went off on one about our collective passion to raise charitable funds by doing something different whilst also tapping into our travel aspirations, our need as (wannabe) athletes to stay in great shape, and the opportunity to be part of something highly unusual. Oh, and as a bonus we'll have ourselves one juicy World Record too.  

Course those in Team Tenzing will not be surprised that i kept returning to the charities, and as an apt reflection of my thoughts about the participants general lack of understanding here, I wish I knew more about them. I had a feeling this would come and bite me if I didn't get on with it and investigate our target charities. Got to pipe and deal with this asap.

Anyhow, we'll get the heads up if anything's printed, and he's very keen to know what we're up to re fundraising events etc. He'll come along and take some pics of us padded up, wherever that may be.

Happy days people, laters for now.