PEAK PERFORMANCE
Gordon tackled the Everest Base Camp challenge in September 2019 with ten other explorers, including Tessa Ogle, CEO and MD of the EIC. To reach their destination, the group
spent up to eight hours a day trekking through steep and unforgiving mountainous terrain, each carrying a 15kg pack. After battling altitude sickness and
Celebrations as the hikers finally make it to Base Camp
climbing through freezing conditions for five days, they finally reached the camp’s coloured flags, which stand at 5,380m above sea level. Tessa said: “Te journey was incredible
and the sense of accomplishment every member felt was undeniable. “It was a physically and mentally
exhausting expedition but we all became a tight-knit group because of it. “Most importantly
we managed to raise an astonishing £50,000 for those in our sector who need assistance most.”
with people you didn’t even know, yet we all came out of it friends and we all bonded exceptionally well; better than any trip I’ve been on before.
Te charity team
faced physical and mental challenges
Did you suffer any side-effects? Only a kind of low feeling, almost like an anti-climax at not being so physically active every day. In Nepal, we got up in the morning, hiked for hours, talked about it at night and then did the same the next day. And all the time, you didn’t have the usual day-to-day stresses because you were just focused on walking, which was quite cathartic.
How much did you raise? And what’s your next challenge? David and I raised about £12,500 between us, and I’ve now signed up to do the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in
Peru with the EIC next year. Part of my training for that involves doing the Edinburgh Marathon in May. It gets me out of the house!
So would you recommend it? Absolutely. It’s tough – the toughest challenge I’ve ever done. Some of the slopes were relentless and at times we all needed other people to tell us, ‘Keep going, you’re nearly there’. But at the end of the day it was a phenomenal thing to do – absolutely fantastic.
Find out more about the EIC and sign up for its next challenge at
www.electricalcharity.org
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Te fundraisers
stop for a breather during their trek
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