Two weeks to Everest
Ahmed, a former Olympic swimmer, trains in the sea for his trek to Mount Everest in Nepal.
Many thanks to Shaari, who took this photo of Ahmed a few days ago and only asked for a bottle of passionfruit juice as payment.
We're using the photo to seek sponsors for this adventure, which we will be filming on high definition. In two weeks, we'll be heading off to Trivandrum from where we catch a train to the Nepali border. Once in Kathmandu and acclimatised, we'll fly to a mountain airstrip in the village of Lukla from where our 3 week trek will start. We intend to climb up to 5.600 metres and cross a snowy mountain pass during the trek.
We can tie flags emblazoned with sponsor logos at the highest point of the trek, where they'll flutter in the shadow of Mount Eversest!
Currently in our last stages of the physical training, we've taken to climbing up and down stairs and walking several kilometres carrying loads of 10kg.
More updates to follow.
posted by Al at 6:28 AM
4 Comments:
That's great news. Another adventure!
Albs,
"an imams story" is awesome, the mossy background was interesting...he is such a gentle soul. also saw the peace campaign slots; i never saw them before? how come? anyway they were very sensitively filmed i thought. Moms started worrying about you; she insisted i check your blog, despite me telling her that youd still b travelling. hope flight and train journey went as per plan
Good job, well done maldives boy
Yoosey, kuribeege
Saabahey kaloa dhivehi dhariyaa
Yoosey
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