So, this will be final post before I reach Kathmandu. Never thought I would be writing this…

Three years have now passed since this bonkers idea of climbing Everest and the highest mountain on each of the other continents popped into my head. Now all the months, weeks and days have been crossed off my calendar – that elusive date of April 3rd – to date just something in the horizon has now crept up on me.

Suppose I should start with a few thank yous. Thank you to my main sponsors: SW MITCHELL CAPITAL LLP & LIFEBOAT TEA for supporting me – getting here would have been a much much greater challenge without you and I am hugely grateful for your support, I will do my absolute best to get those banners to the top. Thank you to all my friends. You have always supported me in this venture and that has made a big big difference. Thank you Freddie for all you have done, would have been an absolute nightmare without you. Lastly, thank you Linnea and my family. You have put up with more than anyone else, from tantrums about this and that to the exhilaration that comes with all my previous summits and the anguish in the final few months preparation for Everest. None of you have ever questioned what I am trying to achieve and I will put all of the confidence you have given me into those final few steps to the top of the world.

“Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.” -Roy D. Chapin Jr.

I have prepared in the best way I know how. I am in physically the best shape I ever have been in, I am mentally ready for whatever challenges this mountains throws at me over the course of this expedition and as for the opportunity part…I know how lucky I am to be given an opportunity to climb to the highest point on earth. There won’t be many other 20 years old on the mountain and I intend to grasp that opportunity with anything and everything I have.

Saying that, I am also 100% aware that getting to the top will mean nothing if I can’t recount my tale at the other end!

Keep checking this blog. I will update it as much as I can without boring you and hope to give you an insight about what it requires to climb Mt. Everest.