Every Day HEROES Conquer Mt Everest
Friday 24th July 2009 teams arrived at Ritchies Training Centre in Glasgow our main sponsor for (Help for Heroes) Heroes Support Heroes, Climb Walk and Abseil Mt Everest charity event.
Abseiling Mt Everest to raising funds for wounded British servicemen and women
9120 Meters (29921 Feet) continuous abseil completed in 19 hours 38 mins.
It takes guts to climb a 45 metre-high tower crane, walk 45 metres along its horizontal jib, then abseil down to the ground again. It takes some higher level of insanity to repeat the exercise, finishing off in the early hours of a Sunday morning in torrential rain. But that’s what teams from the army, air force MRT, police, ambulance, coastguard and fire & rescue services did, in aid of Help for Heroes (H4H), the charity that supports wounded servicemen and women. The aim was for the twenty participants to walk,climb and abseil the equivalent of Mount Everest,
“Working through the night in such a potentially hazardous event meant we really needed to be able to rely on the Safety Crews.
“Donald Ritchie: Although the H4H event was a huge success, we had real problems with weather – it started tipping it down at 4am on Sunday morning. But the safety crew decided the event could carry on, to allow the teams to complete their cumulative target of climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest.” many of the teams had never abseiled before and some of those taking part were seriously scared of heights. “It took real bravery to overcome their fear, but they managed,” he says. They were also incredibly fit: “Some of them were almost running up the tower, even after 15 or 16 ascents.”