Base Campers Off to Everest

A team of 6 intrepid adventurers from Dunmow who call themselves the "Base Campers" are heading to Nepal on Friday 2 October 2009 to attempt to reach Everest Base Camp.

The members of the group are: Su and Stuart Warwick, John Watkins, Mireille Baker, Danny Quinn and Jane Bennett. They've been training in the gym and hiking in mountainous parts of the UK in the build-up to their 12 day expedition.

To raise funds, they held a very successful barn dance at the Foakes Hall on Saturday 26 September. Over 130 people went along and in total, over £2000 was collected for the project.

All of the money raised from events and the expedition will be donated to the charity WaterAid, which aims to provide clean drinking water for those living in poverty anywhere in the world.

Stuart said: "We decided to use the event as an opportunity to raise funds for WaterAid, which is a very worthy cause, and we hope to raise sufficient funds to be able to specify that the money goes directly towards a project in Nepal."

You can find more information about the group and their expedition on the Dunmow Broadcast website:

http://www.dunmow-broadcast.co.uk/content/dunmow/news/basecampers/default.aspx

If you want to keep up-to-date with their progress while they're in Nepal, they also have a blog page:

http://www.dunmow-broadcast.co.uk/flatfiles/weblogs_cambs/base_campers.aspx

And if you'd like to donate some money to the project, they have a page to make it easy:

http://www.justgiving.com/BaseCampers/