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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’.

March 20, 2020

KILIMANJARO!

It’s been a month since we returned from Kilimanjaro, and the world is now a quite different place. People panic […]
February 11, 2020

The day has finally arrived! Or has it..?

So today is the day! All the training and preparation has led to this. The mixture of excitement and nerves […]
February 5, 2020

Target Achieved!

So with a little under a week to go until Kilimanjaro, I have hit my Unicef charity target! I send […]
January 16, 2020

It’s been a while..!

It’s been well over a month since my last blog here, so I thought I’d best get on and add […]
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 […]
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 2, 2019

Man flu!

So, with a few days before we go to the Lake District for our first challenge together as Team Ubuntu, […]
September 25, 2019

These Boots Aren’t Made For Walking

I’ve been slowly gathering walking kit over the last few months, and have had my new boots for a few […]
September 17, 2019

Snakes… why did it have to be snakes?!

It was a lovely hot weekend just gone in England, and I made the most of it with yet another […]
September 4, 2019

Stelvio aka StHELLvio

Summer holidays have now been and gone, and following a two day drive passing through nine European countries (from now […]
August 7, 2019

Jumping on the RideLondon-Surrey 100 route…

Another weekend, another early morning alarm for a bike ride. This time I was going to jump on the closed […]
July 19, 2019

What goes up must come down (but not necessarily stop)

My Kilimanjaro training and Unicef fundraising events continued this past weekend, when I took part in the L’Etape UK cycling […]
July 9, 2019

Cocktails & Dreams…

A quite busy last few days of Kili prep, starting the way I like to carry on with free cocktails […]
June 29, 2019

The email that started it all…

Kilimanjaro then. When the email first went out to all staff at Autovista Group about the possibility of hiking up […]
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