Meet the EiA Team Member: Jon Cooper
Another person training hard for EiA 2021 is Jon Cooper. Someone who has been taking on challenge after challenge since 2013 (although usually on 2 wheels!). This will be his first ski touring challenge… Who are you? Jon Cooper, a 52-year-old married father of 3, living in Oxted. I have ...
Gym Free Training during Lockdown 2.0
A message to all our team members… Gyms may be closed but firstly…don’t panic! Hopefully by now you have a good training regime in place with a mixture of endurance, strength and mobility work. Your endurance work should be mostly outside so that you can use these sessions to get ...
Meet James Ross: Safety Consultant, Wilderness Paramedic… and EIA Guide
As well as being a lead guide for Everest in the Alps, James has extensive experience supporting a range of projects all over the world, including exploratory mining, anti-poaching operations and TV / Film productions. With a military background he is now an experienced Risk Management Consultant and Safety Advisor. ...
Best Ski Touring Kit 2021
When It comes to ski touring kit, it’s always a trade off between weight and performance. Lighter kit allows you to go further and explore more, whilst higher performance kit enables you to make the most out of all the conditions when skiing the descent. Brands have spent years working ...
Everest in the Alps and the Brain Tumour Charity – Five years on!
Five Years Ago… Everest in the Alps founder Rob Ritchie had the amazing (crazy!) idea to create an epic challenge to raise funds to set up a dedicated research centre for low grade paediatric brain tumours, following his son Toby’s diagnosis. Five years ago, that first Everest in the Alps ...
Meet the Team: Team Sāhasa
Everest in the Alps 2021 is filling up fast! With the next in our ‘meet the team’ series, we bring you Team Sāhasa. A group of 4 close friends, all busy professionals with young families, carving out time to train together over the next six months, with the goal of ...
Meet the sisters ready to smash Everest in the Alps next year
Two sisters, one significant birthday and a mighty challenge: Meet Emily Lovell and Wigs Catto. Who are you? Em: My name is Em, and I live in Wiltshire. I’ve run a few marathons and love to stay fit, although this will be a super challenge for me as I’m not ...
Everest in the Lakes – What’s it really like?
On a cold weekend in December last year, a brave group of people were tackling Everest in the Lakes – The Recce. Amongst them was EiA Personal Trainer Becky Scott, ready to test the theory, the route, the kit and whether tackling half the height of Everest in one weekend ...
Meet the 2021 Team Member: Will Smith
2021 may seem a while off but it seems people are eager to start thinking about the future and to give themselves something to aim for and train for. In the first of this years popular ‘meet the team member’ series, we meet Will Smith and find out what has ...
Everesting During Lockdown
13 Year old Issy has been using her time during lockdown to achieve something extraordinary. Rather than using her breaks between schooling to have some downtime, she has been busy climbing stairs, cycling and walking up a good few hills, all with the aim of summiting the equivalent height of ...
How to train for a multi day ski tour
Louisa Tuely is a Sports Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer and currently studying for Sport Therapist BSc. With a passion for the Alpine mountains and an avid skier, as well as being a ski instructor in her spare time, she couldn’t resist the opportunity to support Everest in the Alps as ...
EiA 2020 – The Diary
Charlie Birchall: Part time alpinist, mountain lover, ultra runner, fashion follower, cow dodger, full time dreamer and Everest in the Alps 2020 team member of Team Summit. Here she gives us the low down on EiA 2020… Read on to find out what it was really like! Day 0 – ...
