Sunday 27 May 2018

One more sleep!

Hola everyone,

Ellie here! Elder has sent through a few more pictures of his last few days leading up to the incredible Everest Marathon that he'd love to share with you!
Elder and Mel getting ready!!

Elder and Mel spent their first night at Everest Base Camp last night with one more night tonight. 

The race starts at 7am tomorrow (Tuesday) morning local time - For those wanting to track the race this will be approx 1pm New Zealand time, 3pm Australian time (East Coast) and for those in the Americas you'll need to tune in on Monday evening - 6.15pm California time and 8.15pm in Peru.

Elder's tracking number is 143 and Mel's is 112 everestmarathon.com

Good luck team!!! We can't wait to hear all about it!
Elder with friend Ang Dawa who has summited Everest 4 times!



Heading to Base Camp! Everest in the background
Ama Dablam
 
 

Elder with the amazing family from Poumari Tea House, they have treated him like a son!
Helicopter to Lukla!
View of Nuptse with Base Camp behind Elder


  


Presents from our amazing friends at Shoe Clinic in Invercargill!
Rai!
Climbers from Everest. Some of these guys have summited 10 times!




Wednesday 16 May 2018

13 Days to go!! / Trece días más!!!

Woohoo, not long till the marathon – only 13 days to go. The clock is ticking down.

I’m here in the Himalayas already letting my body adapt to the altitude. I’ve been in Nepal for a couple of weeks now guiding an Everest Base Camp trip for Active Adventures and spending time with my awesome clients - Richard, Paul and his son Branden and our amazing Nepali team Amrit, Dipes and Raz. We’ve had a great trip, sharing stories and playing cards in the tea houses as we made our way to and from Base Camp.

It’s been pretty busy on the trail with lots of climbers on their way to summit Sagarmatha/ Mt Everest. So far 39 climbers have made it to the summit and I wish all the best for rest of them.

I’ve been doing some training runs on our rest days and taking in the breath-taking scenery and amazing people. Everyone here is cheering you on and giving you lots of motivation!

I’ve also just found out that our crew member Raz is running in the Everest Marathon too! It will be an absolute pleasure to run with him!


I’ll be heading back to Lukla on the 19th May to start the journey back to EBC to start the race. From there it’s on to Periche where I will meet up with my friend and fellow Active Adventures guide Mel McArtney. From there we will hike together to do this awesome charity run and prove to ourselves that we can do this! It’s going to be crazy fun, hiking bistari bistari (it means slowly slowly) and spending time with our Nepalase friends and sharing a lot of Nepali tea, we’ll be resting lots and of course eating lots of Dhal Bhat! In Nepal we live by the classic saying “Dhal Bhat power twenty three ours one hour for toilet and shower”

Thank you all again so much for your thoughts and support and all the people that have been donating to this charity. A big thanks to Shoe Clinic who has donated some spare running shoes which we are able to give to Nepali runners like Raz!

If you want to check out how much we are raising for this charity head to the Active Hearts Foundation page or the givealittle page. It’s so exciting tod bring lots dreams and smiles to these awesome people in Nepal!

Well that’s it for now. I will try and send another post before the race but if not I’ll be in touch after I cross that finish line. You should be able to track us on the Everest Marathon website or their Facebook page.  

Jungle Boy

Namaste

For everyone keen on the spanish version see below!!!




Solo faltan 13 días para la maratón

Ya aquí en los Himalayas, Nepal aclimatizando un poco más el cuerpo mientras guiando para la empresa en la que trabajo hace años Active Adventures llevando un grupo de clientes hacia el campamento base del Everest con el clima espectacular, los hospedajes acogedores y por supuesto con gente lindisima y amable contando anécdotas, juegos de cartas y compartiendo historias con algunos escaladores a la montaña más alta del mundo El Everest/Sagarmatha que hasta la fecha ya escalaron 39 personas de las 349 en total
Y muchas Bendiciones para ellos!

Aquí en nuestros días de aclimatación mientras mis pasajeros descansan yo a seguir mi entrenamiento siempre los nepaleses muy lindos alentándome para seguir

Uno de nuestros porteadores Raz estará corriendo la maratón también lo cual me llena de alegría y creo no poder ganarle jaja.. pero si será un enorme placer correr con El. El también estuvo entrenando duro como el me dijo tratara de estar en uno de los 3 primer lugares así que vamos Raz!!

Ahora termine mi trabajo clientes de regreso a casa!! así que yo de regreso al campamento Base otra ves 10 días de caminata y así que el 29 de mayo estaré finalizando una de mis metas y sueños de aquellos que lo necesitan.
siempre dándole gracias a Dios por dejarme cumplir lo que quiero y sueño.

Gracias por el apoyo incondicional de toda mi linda familia hermanos, primos sobrinos tíos y más, mi prometida Ellie y amigos que compartieron en sus muros y redes sociales un enorme abrazo para todos y muchas bendiciones en todo.

Y para los jóvenes y niños de puerto Maldonado: no es necesario ser millonario sino solo tener sueños y luchar por ellos con fuerza y ganas y respeto se logra todo.

Asi que les contare como me fue jungle boy en Camino a la línea de partida

Y aquí la bandera de mi tierra que me vio nacer