Marlow activity centre to stage Mount Everest challenge

8:00am Sunday 6th January 2013 in News By

Marlow activity centre to stage Mount Everest challenge Marlow activity centre to stage Mount Everest challenge

A COLLECTION of climbers will seek to emulate the historic and epic achievement of Sir Edmund Hillary 60 years after he became the first person to scale Mount Everest.

The challenge, to climb the same distance as Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, will take place at a Marlow activities centre.

Leanna Shuttleworth, the record holder as the youngest British female to summit Mt Everest, and the youngest British female to have completed the Seven Summits, will take part.

Groups and individuals are being encouraged to join in the gravity defying challenge at Longridge next month.

The event is being organised by Rotarians.

Collectively, participants will climb the equivalent of base camp to the summit of Mount Everest, using the outdoor climbing wall, going up and down 233 times in about ten hours.

Lisa Hunter, spokesman for The Rotary Club of Maidenhead Bridge, said: “The purpose of the challenge is to have some fun and also to raise money for Longridge. “For more young people to benefit from the superb activities Longridge offers they need to reinvigorate their facilities, which currently are tired, old, prone to flooding and in most cases just too small to service their existing visitors - let alone new ones.

“New facilities will encourage more adult and corporate use and this use will underwrite the activities for young people; in a nutshell the more businesses that use the centre the cheaper their provision will be for the most vulnerable of our society.”

The Big Climb takes place on February 23 and 24.

For more information see www.maidenheadbridgerotary.org.uk/thebigclimb, email events@maidenheadbridgerotary.org.uk or call Lisa on 07876 341334.

Comments(10)

Cressex Offender says...
2:50pm Mon 7 Jan 13

This a coincidence as I am planning to pay homage to the first person to swim the channel by taking a bath.

Seriously though, from what I can gather (having obviously never climbed Everest) it's not the distance which makes it a challenge, so much as the climate and altitude so me having a bath for however long it takes to swim the channel essentially amounts to the same thing!

I am glad that they are doing ti for Longridge though. A very worthwhile cause.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
7:21pm Mon 7 Jan 13

I intend to make a minimalist homage to the first person to swim the channel by taking a shower.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
7:26pm Mon 7 Jan 13

Was the photo taken 'at a Marlow activities centre'?

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Cressex Offender says...
1:36pm Tue 8 Jan 13

I might scale down my tribute to a spongebath.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
1:51pm Tue 8 Jan 13

This sounds like an ironically minimalist tribute to Captain Webb.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
1:53pm Tue 8 Jan 13

ImpeturbableLawrence wrote:
Was the photo taken 'at a Marlow activities centre'?
Or Marlow Hill during the snow that shuts everything down unexpectedly every winter?

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Cressex Offender says...
2:23pm Tue 8 Jan 13

ImpeturbableLawrence wrote:
I intend to make a minimalist homage to the first person to swim the channel by taking a shower.
Very environmentally friendly.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
2:26pm Tue 8 Jan 13

I re-considered my original tribute and at first decided it would be more appropriate for teams of the domestic staff at Lawrence Towers to recreate Captain Webb's feat of swimming the English Channel in 21 hours and 45 minutes against the tide - the equivalent of 39 miles. After discussion of which figure to prefer a junior member of staff suggested we could reduce this further by sharing the job with the staff at Bigun Hall in Cressex - but this was vetoed by more conservative members of my entourage who were worried these people might be vulgar in their attire and speech so we are now going to have a sponge bath lasting for 21 hours and 46 minutes in tribute to a gallant Englishman

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
2:30pm Tue 8 Jan 13

(It can get a bit time-consuming being really posh the whole time.)

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Cressex Offender says...
11:09am Wed 9 Jan 13

I'm going to pay homage to Roger Bannister's 4 minute mile by walking to briskly my fridge later.

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