Tribewanted: Vorovoro

then imagine what you could achieve…................

Just for the benefit of those who don’t listen to BBC Radio 1 breakfast show, Chris Moyles is the loud, arrogant, large and opinion dividing presenter (on whether he’s actually a nice bloke) of the show. Over the last few months he and some of his A list celebrity mates have been preparing to climb Africa’s highest mountain (almost 6000 m’s) as part of a fund raiser for comic relief. So last week he along with such luminaries as Cheryl Cole, Ronan Keating, Garry Barlow finally set out on their mission to climb it while sending regular reports back to the BBC so we could follow their progress.

However listening to their reports this week really reminded me what I love about climbing. As Moyles would report back to the BBC over the week the tone of his voice noticeably changed as the group got higher and life became harder. To begin with was the typical swaggering, cocky loudmouth but by the end you could hear a real sense of humility and modesty in his voice. Climbing mountains is a real challenge both physically and mentally (much more so that people who have never done it often realise) and by the end of the week the enormity of what he’d set himself was very clear. It was incredible to hear him sounding so honest and humble for a change about how challenging it all was, it almost made him likeable.

This sense of a man really pushing himself and the sense of perspective that it was giving him was amazing to hear. What attracts so many people continually to climbing is that unique sense of perspective that it gives you. Suddenly from being potentially quite an ‘important’ person in your own environment you are taken completely outside that into this vast and mighty, uncontrollable expanse. You suddenly find yourself feeling very small and insignificant surrounded by this immense beautiful wilderness. And that is what is so refreshing about the experience. It almost impossible to come away from such an experience without so real and deep life reflections about where you are in the world and where you going.

To top it off, Moyles and his group raised a staggering £1.4 million for charity as a result. Regardless what you think of him, that is quite something and deserves genuine congratulations.

So this summer we too will be taking to the mountains. Tribewanted has organised 3 separate expedition dates where we will be taking a small group through their paces in the stunning Ancash area of Northern Peru before attempting a double summit on Pisco (5752 m’s) and Yanapaccha (5400 m’s).

For more info click on this link
http://www.tribewanted.com/blog/andina

Departure Dates:
Sat 27th June to Thursday 16th July 2009
Sat 18th July to Thursday 6th August 2009
Sat 15th August to Thursday 3rd September 2009

As part of your payment to Tribewanted you will receive a years membership to Survival who campaign for indigenous tribal rights across the developing world. On top of this a small donation of this of the amount will go to the charity called Puentes which aims to provide the street children of Peru with a safe and happy childhood which was set up by a amazing friend of mine who’s life was tragically cut short in Ecuador last year.

If you would like any more information regarding Tribewanted Andina then please don’t hesitate to drop me a line.

giles@tribewanted.com