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Hear from our Kilimanjaro Challengers as they get kit together, fundraise, get fit and prepare to ‘learn on the way up’.

November 22, 2019

Third week in Colombia!

Here is the last post about my trip to Colombia!! This third week was a really rainny one cause we […]
November 20, 2019

Day off, go for a walk!

I had a day off from work last week, and with the weather looking cold, wet and miserable, I decided […]
November 13, 2019

After The Mountain

It is now some weeks without posting, right after the lake District Challenge. I explained what Lake District Challenge meant […]
November 13, 2019

Almost there, awesome!

It’s been a challenge with a few setbacks lately with leg injury and flu, but now that I have gotten […]
November 7, 2019

3 Peaks in 3 Days – Rising to the Challenge

Having returned (and recovered!) from an amazing three days of training in the Lake District last month I’ve had time […]
November 6, 2019

New Horizons

One of the unexpected benefits of training for Kilimanjaro has been to widen my horizons, trying out new walks with […]
November 5, 2019

Second week in Colombia

Its been a while since this “second week” but i didnt have the time to write these words… but here […]
October 22, 2019

Back on track

Our training weekend in the Lake District was a fantastic opportunity to test out fitness levels and kit, get advice […]
October 17, 2019

How Team Ubuntu was formed

This journey has been such an amazing experience so far and it has touched me deeply so I wanted to […]
October 16, 2019

Lake District challenge!! UBUNTU TEAM!

Its been one week since we came back from the Lake District Challenge! 🙂 We had a really nice time […]
October 16, 2019

Running the Royal Park Half Marathon

Just a quick update unfortunately I couldn’t post this earlier due to my travels for the employee forum but on Sunday […]
October 15, 2019

My post in Lake District :-)

Following the instruction, herewith my first post in the blog.                   Hoping […]
October 11, 2019

Lake District challenge: no words to describe it

I have been asked these days how the Lake district challenge experience was, and it is difficult to explain it […]
October 9, 2019

Thank you

In all the excitement of getting to know my Team Ubuntu colleagues, trying out kit and tackling some of the […]
October 9, 2019

Team Ubuntu united finally in Lake District challenge Keswick

What a great journey Team Ubuntu had at the Lake District last weekend! We have such an amazing team! Check […]
October 5, 2019

Sausages for UNICEF!

Thank you for your Donations! Many thanks to everyone who donated money during our “Vienna sausage cooking day”this week.  It […]
October 5, 2019

First day, first smiles in the mountain

Yesterday was the first day of the Lake district challenge!! Everything went well!! To summarize… Great team, clouds, incredible views, […]
October 4, 2019

First day of Lake district challenge done!

Such a great first day here in Lake district! We got lucky and the sun showed up after Grag hill […]
October 4, 2019

A Walk In The Clouds

So we are right now in the glorious Lake District, and despite still suffering from the ill effects of the […]
October 4, 2019

Actually it was not too bad – by Rickkie Rand

Things did not start to plan yesterday with delays at airports meant we didn’t arrive and eat till after 10pm. […]
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