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Inside the Everest Centre

Seeing the impact first-hand. Recently, Rob and Tanya Ritchie visited the Everest Centre in Heidelberg. After more than ten years of Everest in the Alps, years of training, fundraising and climbing in partnership with The Brain Tumour Charity, this was a rare moment to step inside the laboratories their community ...

27/01/2026

Meet the Team: Team Syren

One team. One mission. A challenge with deep, enduring meaning. Team Syren return to Everest in the Alps this year with an even greater purpose. What began in 2024 as a mission driven by hope for Alex Bernard-Bell has become a legacy. Alex passed away in January 2025 at the ...

10/12/2025

Category: Interview: meet the team member series

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

Stepping into the unknown

A conversation with one of the original EIA team members. In 2015, a team of 14 set off on our first Everest in the Alps challenge: to ascend 8,848 metres – the height of Everest – on skis, over four days in the Alps. It was the ultimate ski touring ...

11/09/2018