Cricket On Everest - leading an expedition for the first time
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A flavour for those who don’t know what I’m doing
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26 months ago…
A friend said that he’d seen this plateau on MT Everest that was big enough to have a cricket match, and he’d be surprised if there was anywhere higher of this size and it would probably be a world record altitude for sport… 16, 945ft
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18 months ago…
He was odd jobbing doing landscape gardening and I was fed up with just being another idea no-one did anything with
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12 months ago…
We launched the more formalised idea…
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Next week…
An expedition of 50 people leaves Britain
A total expedition party of 90 people will set off on a 14 day expedition on Everest
With the aim of setting a world record altitude for sport… …in the Nokia Maps Everest Test
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A flavour of the scale…
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Milestones
• 100 applications in 10 days through word of mouth
• 47 Completely self sufficient skilled participants funding their costs
• 1 fully utilised partner programme of 20 partner companies
• 1 legacy spanning 2 countries
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The expedition
• 30 players• 4 umpires• 16 Guides• 16 Porters• 4 Government liaison officers• 3 Security • 3 Embedded media• 4 Camera / film crew• 8 Support/cheerleaders
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Central technical kit
• 4 laptops• 1 router / wireless network• 12 radios• 3 sat phones• 10 Stills cameras• 2 Canon XH A1 video cameras• 6 Nokia latest handsets• 13 Solar charger packs• 2 GPS trackers• 1 generator• And a whole load of licenses
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Central playing kit
• 1 ‘portable’ Wicket
• 5 Bats
• 6 Helmets
• 4 sets Batting Pads
• 4 sets Batting Gloves
• 2 sets Wicket Keeping equipment
• 30 pink Balls
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A flavour of our partners…
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A flavour of our training…
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A flavour of our fundraising…
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A flavour of our what’s in store…
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A flavour of how you can follow us…
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A flavour of the legacy…
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A flavour of how you can help this legacy…
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Justgiving.com/garethoneverest
All donations to charity – we’ve covered our costs
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Highs
• Experiences and friendship
• The buzz from seeing something grow
• The thrill of seeing people develop
• Learning about myself
• Medical teams
• Getting the brands on board
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Lows
• Fully experiencing ego and agenda
• Realisation that some friends are slackers!
• A real threat in chronic fatigue
• People no longer going
• Recession
But really they are highs…
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Experiences to date
• Leadership• Media spotlight! • Training again• Really learning to network• Management • Standing on stairs of the plane!• Schools and charities• Personalities • Learning how to work with people in an
emotional and pressurised environment
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Any questions?