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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
<p>I Did it !</p>
<p>It was my Everest!</p>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Well I am back and what an adventure!</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">The trek was a lot tougher than I expected but despite sleep depravation(4-5hrs a night), 40% Oxygen, fatigue, altitude sickness, sleeping in plywood "freezers", yak dung burners, Nepalese belly!, muscle cramps, sunburn, minus 25deg temps, rock falls, avalanches...... I made the trek of a lifetime and completed the 4 biggest challenges on the trek; Gokyo Ri (5355M), Chola Pass (5380M), Everest Base Camp (5365M) and Kala Patar (5545M). </span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">I must emphasise not all the points above were on my risk assessment, particularly the Yak dung burners! </span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Most of all, Nepal is a wonderful safe country with outstanding natural beauty, with great great people who have fantastic human spirit despite abject poverty, poor education and reliance on the mountain tourism industry. </span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Some facts about the trip.</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Days trekking 18</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Total distance 168km 70% above 4500M</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Total ascent 14,560M (nearly 2 Everests!)</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Energy burned over 45,000 calories - hence I have lost a stone in weight (not a recommended diet!)</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">9 people in the group - 4 of us made all 4 challenges and 8 made it to Base Camp.</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">2 assistant guides</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">1 lead guide with over 20 years experience.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Photos taken 875</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">Carbon offset for the trip 100% </span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">A massive thank you to everyone who supported my charity, prostate cancer research. I have been genuinely blown away by the level of support and messages of support. I think I have raised over £4,000 so far which BP will match and special big thank you to Isle of Grain Terminal staff and contractors who held a fund raising day which raised over £1700 alone (WOW!!) </span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;"><span class="152155507-04052011">If you still wish to donate, my site will be open for a couple more months yet.</span></span></div>
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