Meet the Team Member: Aisling Bowman – Former Olympian Sailor!
Who are you? Aisling Bowman, Irish, Dublin born, living in the UK 30 years now. Based Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Wife to Rory, mother of 3 girls, former Olympian (Sailor – Seoul ’88 & Atlanta ’96) What’s your inspiration for taking on such an epic challenge? After spending time running after children ...
Everest in the Lakes – Meet the team member: Lizzie Green
Who are you? Lizzie Green, wife and mother to three awesome humans and two four legged friends, yogi and gardener What’s your inspiration for taking on such an epic challenge? After two years of being stuck at home, I needed to stretch my legs and desperate to see some hills. ...
Welcome back! Team member: Katie Henderson
Who are you? I’m Katie and I’m 22. I have recently graduated from Exeter University and am looking forward to starting as a Machine Learning consultant in November. Before I start I’m making the most of my free time and will hopefully be travelling around Canada before coming back to ...
Meet Team Wickers, ready to smash EiA 2022!
Meet Team Wickers. A group of four friends and colleagues, led by Henry Smith, founder of The Wickers Charity, all intent on raising as much money as possible to support youths in London to stay away from knife crime. All into their fitness and used to hard physical challenges.. but ...
Why take on an extreme challenge?
Who are they? Over the years that we have been running our annual Everest in the Alps event, the thing that stands out most is our teammates and their drive and determination to push themselves to such extremes to complete the challenge. It’s not easy. It takes huge amounts of mental toughness as ...
Everest on Snowdon
Our Journey. We started our journey at the end of 2019 hoping to take part in the ultimate endurance ski touring challenge, Everest in the Alps, uphill skiing the height of Mount Everest, the equivalent of running 12 marathons in 4 days. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the event from ...
Everest in the Alps 2021 has been postponed…
This won’t come as a surprise to many of you after the recent tightening of restrictions here in the UK, but unfortunately, we have had to make the difficult decision to cancel EiA for 2021. Whilst we were happy to wait and see while things were looking more positive, we ...
Promising developments from the Everest Centre
Promising developments for paediatric low grade glioma drug This new analysis of the data from multiple previous clinical trials is already informing upcoming clinical trials like ‘Low Grade Glioma In Children’ (LOGGIC), which is being set up across Europe and the UK. This analysis is the largest that has been ...
Ski Touring in Scotland
WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER IT FOR YOUR EiA PREPARATION If you are new to ski touring and looking for some time on skis before the EIA event in 2021 then the current COVID-19 restrictions are probably feeling even more annoying right now! Nipping over to the Alps for a few ...
Meet the EiA Team Member: Jon Cooper
Another person training hard for EiA 2021 is Jon Cooper. Someone who has been taking on challenge after challenge since 2013 (although usually on 2 wheels!). This will be his first ski touring challenge… Who are you? Jon Cooper, a 52-year-old married father of 3, living in Oxted. I have ...
Gym Free Training during Lockdown 2.0
A message to all our team members… Gyms may be closed but firstly…don’t panic! Hopefully by now you have a good training regime in place with a mixture of endurance, strength and mobility work. Your endurance work should be mostly outside so that you can use these sessions to get ...
Meet James Ross: Safety Consultant, Wilderness Paramedic… and EIA Guide
As well as being a lead guide for Everest in the Alps, James has extensive experience supporting a range of projects all over the world, including exploratory mining, anti-poaching operations and TV / Film productions. With a military background he is now an experienced Risk Management Consultant and Safety Advisor. ...
