Freddie fforde

Dear all, It’s been a difficult few days waiting on news of Geordie’s climb, and we knew yesterday that he had been doing well and had reached about 8,700m of 8,848m. The break in communication was down to an illness to another team member and difficult weather conditions. We have just learned however that Geordie [...]

Dear all, Apologies are extended for the drawn out nature of news on Geordie’s progress, and it is only with the best intentions of keeping Geordie’s friends, family and supporters up to date with the very latest news. It appears that despite a hectic and sleepless 36 hours, we will now be able to rest [...]

Dear all, Please forgive the mistake, but Geordie will be hoping to summit at 1AM GMT. We should hope to have news from 2am, this is in all but a few hours. We are unclear as to whether this calculation has taken British Summer Time into account or not, and so all times could be [...]

So we made it to ABC ok which was the first checkpoint on this summit attempt. The aim was to spend two rest days here before heading up but this plan has changed. There is a storm brewing over the Bay of Bengal which will apparently hit Everest on the 24th May (our intended summit [...]

And in the words of Murray Walker, the great Formula 1 commentator, it’s “go, go, go!” Sadly the comparison with F1 is going to end there. Whereas Jenson Button and co. are flying around Silverstone inches away from each other at 200mph, we will be plodding along at 0.1mph, literally, on the Northeast Ridge. It [...]

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverence.” – H. Jackson Brown Last time I wrote we were waiting at Base Camp for that elusive weather window – I suppose not much has changed in that sense. We still wait, and in relation to [...]

So the first piece of interest is that I am writing this one year older than I was yesterday. To be quite honest, this is of little interest to anyone but myself, but thought that making it to 21 was newsworthy to someone at least. To the expedition then – since I last wrote, which [...]