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EIA 2024 – The Diary

As we wrap up another incredible Everest in the Alps event, our teams have so much to be proud of and a lot of amazing memories to look back on. Will Newbery of Team Tenzing shares what it was like to take part in EIA 2024.  “We could see the ...

22/03/2024

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

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Official hydration partner: Precision Hydration

How to stay hydrated during Everest In The Alps. Staying hydrated is crucial if you want to perform at your best during Everest In The Alps, so our friends at Precision Hydration have put together some advice to help you start and stay hydrated during the event… What hydration challenges ...

12/02/2019

Meet Team Blackline

Welcome to the next in our ‘meet the team’ series: This week we introduce Team BlackLine. A group of five Hampshire dads set on making a difference. The team, headed up by TVs Phil Spencer, also includes Mark Lindblom, Rupert McInnes, Nick Sowerbutts and Alex Lewis, and they will be ...

08/02/2019

Meet Tobias Mews: Elite ultra athlete, former Army Captain and now Everest in the Alps team member.

Tobias joins Everest in the Alps 2019… Tobias Mews is one of those crazy people that loves a challenge! In his own words he is “an adventure athlete, ultra marathon runner and a 4-time Ironman Triathlete. I’ve seven sub-3hr marathons to my name… cycosportives, mountain biker, Black T-shirt wearing Norseman with a ...

31/01/2019

Meet Team Sagarmatha

Welcome to our 2019 meet the team series, where we’ll be delving into the minds of our team members as they prepare to take on Everest in the Alps 2019. First up is Team Sagarmatha! Who is Team Sagarmatha? We are a team of six friends (Stuart Miners, David Flight, ...

25/01/2019

Breaking news from the Everest Centre in their research into childhood brain tumours

Scientists have discovered what drives the unpredictable growth of low grade brain tumours…   The Everest Centre for Research into Paediatric Low Grade Brain Tumours is a ground-breaking new initiative. The £5 million landmark centre is the largest single investment in research ever made by The Brain Tumour Charity, funded ...

11/12/2018

Meet Jaco van Gass: Champion cyclist/adventurer/speaker and EIA Guide.

Meet Jaco van Gass: Champion cyclist/adventurer/speaker and EIA Guide. South African born Jaco van Gass was a member of the British Armed Forces Parachute Regiment. It was during Jaco’s second tour of Afghanistan in 2009, after five and a half months and with just two weeks to go when Jaco sustained ...

04/12/2018

Meet Lizi: UK Ironman champion and EIA sports therapist

Meet Lizi Duncombe: UK Ironman champion and EIA Sports therapist   Lizi, you have many strings to your bow! Physical Therapist, PT, trainee Osteopath and UK Ironman champion… Tell us more! I used to be a bit of a couch potato and even though I worked in a gym, I’d ...

06/11/2018

What happened when 7 school mums took on the ultimate challenge…

What happened when 7 school mums took on the ultimate challenge… Here we catch up with Bebe Corbett, a 44 year old mum of 2. Usually found working on the family farm in Hampshire or running a farm in the highlands of Scotland. Here’s what happened when she swapped Hampshire for ...

01/11/2018

Training at high altitude and extreme ski tour weekends

NATURE: reap the BENEFITS   By Emma Bodkin – Mountain Beach Fitness Retreats.   Working out in nature is the ultimate antidote to modern life. Scarily modern life and chronic stress is having a detrimental effect on our brains. Amazingly working out in nature has been proven to reverse this effect ...

25/10/2018

Q&A with IFMGA Mountain Guide Harry Taylor

Q&A with IFMGA Mountain Guide Harry Taylor. IFMGA Mountain Guide, Harry Taylor, is a former British SAS member, mountaineer and security advisor. He is also the lead guide for our EiA challenge. Having climbed on Everest nine times, he is the second British man to have reached the summit without ...

16/10/2018

Who takes on the challenge of a lifetime… twice?!?

Here we catch up with Jeremy Hunter, one of the few to have completed this monumental ascent… twice! Completing this challenge twice is a major accomplishment! Starting at the beginning, what initially led you to take on the challenge? I have known the Ritchie Family for a long time and ...

02/10/2018

How to find your peak fitness

By Becky Scott – RS Performance Training.   During 2017/18 I was fortunate to work with teams taking part in the 2018 Everest in the Alps challenge. We had big team gatherings in London to discuss to different training plans whilst I worked closely with Toby’s team training a couple ...

28/09/2018