Tennore's Mount Everest Base Camp and 6160m Island Peak -Nov 2nd 2022
Tennore Ramesh is raising money for Motor Neurone Disease Association
In memory of Canan Gurman
Story
My entry into MND research was motivated by my sister in law Mrs. Canan Gurman, who was diagnosed with ALS/MND at a pretty young age. I gave up my job in pharma company and started to research MND and thus began my research career in ALS/MND.
https://www.mndassociation.org/about-mnd/what-is-mnd/
I am a veterinarian by training but got my PhD in molecular biology and further did a post doc in neuroscience at the University of Michigan. I have developed mouse and zebrafish models of MND and performed screening of thousands of compounds over the last 2 decades. I recently retired as faculty from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neurosciences (SITraN), where I have worked since 2008 and prior to that worked over a decade in the USA and founded the research lab at ALS-TDI, Boston.
As a part of my retirement objective, I have undertaken a life long wish to trek the Himalayas and what better place to go to than the Everest Base Camp. This is a 135Km trek that takes me from Lukla (2860M) to the Everest Base Camp (5364M) altitude. Air is 50% thinner at the Base camp than at Sea Level. So, quite a bit of adaptation which takes a few weeks.
In addition to going to base camp, I am also attempting to summit the Island peak, that rises above the 6000m mark (which is a huge accomplishment for me). The summit of Island peak stands at 6160M.
I have never done such an adventurous trek and never a summit climb, so it will truly be an adventure. I hope to succeed in my attempt at the summit.
The reason, I chose to fundraise for this trip is to keep the fire of MND research in my heart and help patients and families with MND and bring hope to them. MNDA has supported my research over the years and this is my way of thanking MNDA for the great effort they take to support high risk/high reward research projects.
https://www.mndassociation.org/about-us/
All adventures are based on hope and I hope this adventure will keep the spirit of adventure in research and help MNDA support adventurous and high risk/high reward projects that may have a huge impact in the future.