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Meet the Team: Team Weekend Warrior

Meet the third team taking part in EIA 2024, Team Weekend Warrior! Training hard for the toughest challenge, we can’t wait to see how they tackle the Alps. Find out a little more about Mark, Brandon and Jonathan below.  Who are you? MH: Mark Hancock. BJ: I’m Brandon Jones, 54 ...

20/02/2024

Meet the Team: Team Tenzing

Welcome to Everest in the Alps, Team Tenzing! This adventurous trio have been hitting the training hard to prepare for the greatest challenge of their lives. Get to know Tom, Will and Mike a little better, and make sure you’re following along on Instagram for all the action. Who are ...

15/02/2024

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Meet the Team: Team Weekend Warrior

Meet the third team taking part in EIA 2024, Team Weekend Warrior! Training hard for the toughest challenge, we can’t wait to see how they tackle the Alps. Find out a little more about Mark, Brandon and Jonathan below.  Who are you? MH: Mark Hancock. BJ: I’m Brandon Jones, 54 ...

20/02/2024

Meet the Team: Team Tenzing

Welcome to Everest in the Alps, Team Tenzing! This adventurous trio have been hitting the training hard to prepare for the greatest challenge of their lives. Get to know Tom, Will and Mike a little better, and make sure you’re following along on Instagram for all the action. Who are ...

15/02/2024

Meet the Team: Team Syren Part 2

It’s time to meet the rest of Team Syren, as they get ready to embark on Everest in the Alps 2024.  This truly global squad will assemble in Verbier, travelling from places including Serbia, Colorado, Andorra and Brasil. Here, we catch up with Adam, Kosta and Mike, to see how ...

01/02/2024

Meet the Team: Team Syren Part 1

We are thrilled to welcome Team Syren to the 2024 Everest in the Alps challenge. This incredible team of five, from countries around the world, will gather in Switzerland to put their minds and bodies to the test. Read on to get to know two members a little better, and ...

26/01/2024

A Mountain of Impact

Introducing the EiA Impact Report   The toughest four days on skis fundraising for life changing causes. That’s EIA in a nutshell. What’s trickier to summarise is the huge impact this event has on the lives of other people.  Luckily, impact agency Benesys have done it for us. The Everest ...

05/10/2023

Is Everest in the Alps right for me?

Thinking about taking on the biggest challenge of your life? We understand you might have some questions or reservations, but we’re here to put your mind at ease. We’ve pulled together some of the most common concerns raised to the Everest in the Alps team, so that you can equip ...

06/09/2023

Film Club: Lhotse ft. Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison

The route to Everest is silent. Everest Basecamp, usually a bustling city of tents, is an empty white bowl between towering mountains. Only a tiny cluster of red and yellow nylon shelters breaks the white. Where is everybody? This is the side of the Everest route that almost no one ...

18/05/2023

Supplements to fuel endurance challenges

DR.VEGAN® X EVEREST IN THE ALPS Nutrition is vital to provide your mind and body with what it needs to endure intense exertion activities. That’s why we were so glad when DR.VEGAN® partnered with us for the Everest in the Alps challenge. DR.VEGAN’s range of clean supplements are formulated by ...

27/03/2023

EiA 2023 – The Diary

BY LORNA ROBERTSON TIMMIS With sincere thanks to all those who make Everest in the Alps possible, Rob and Tania Ritchie, Anna Rae Dowling, Aysha Folland, Tom Bodkin and all at Secret Compass-as well as all the guides and masseurs who took away some of the pain.  Lastly and most ...

15/03/2023

Launching the EiA Debit Card from Currensea

An easier way to donate to a cause you care about Powered by Currensea and MasterCard   We’re so excited to announce the launch of the EIA debit card – and keen to tell you all about the rewards it can reap, particularly when travelling abroad: Free to apply and better FX ...

22/02/2023

Scientists join forces to transform treatments for childhood brain tumours

By the Brain Tumour Charity Experts at The Everest Centre are delivering a cutting-edge program of scientific research to develop pioneering new treatments for children diagnosed with low-grade brain tumours, following major new funding from The Brain Tumour Charity. We are excited to announce we will be funding a further ...

22/02/2023

Meet the team members: Simon Corben and Nick Heath

Who are you? SC: Simon Corben.  51 year old father of three – 2 girls, 1 boy (who’s a great mate of  Toby) and husband of Tiggy who did it in 2018! – We live in Hampshire and I work for the NHS. NH: Nick Heath. 51-year-old father of three ...

15/02/2023