it's charity time!
March 26th, 2009
Our good friend (and dedicated Errol fan) Tooves is doing something kind of amazing. He is travelling with a group of about 50 people to play cricket at the foot of Mount Everest. Yep, really.
Heres the low down -
* They are looking to break a world record for the highest game of sport ever played. FIFA won’t allow games to be played at over 2500m. The game will be at GorakShep, which is 5165m.
* They will be playing a game of 20/20 cricket, with official umpires and Guiness will ratify the record. They will be followed by a documentary crew and also a journalist from The Daily Telegraph (UK). The goal for this trek is to raise £250,000 ($550,000 AUD) split between The Lords Taverners and The Himalayan Trust UK.
* The Himalyan Trust (UK) is the charity Sir Edmund Hillary setup to assist the Sherpa way of life, giving them education and hospitals etc. On the way up, they’ll be stopping at Khumjung School (3800 metres high – setup by The Himalayan Trust) to teach the kids cricket and also stopping off on the way back to donate all our cricket kit used in the match.
Tooves has already paid his own way (Flights, Cricket Kit, Accomm and Sherpa’s Fee’s etc) to the tune of about £3,500, but he also has a personal goal of £1500 to raise or else he won’t be able to go on the trip! So we need to help him along a bit okay kiddies?
Heres all the links you need!
Official Site: http://www.theeveresttest.com
Official Blog: http://www.atestabovetherest.com/
Lords Taverners: http://www.lordstaverners.org/
The Himalayan Trust: http://www.himalayantrust.co.uk/
Tooves’ Blog: http://tooveseverest.blogspot.com
And the most important bit – DING DING DING – Tooves’ donation page.
You can see he’s almost at £1000 so he is close close close. If you possibly can, do your thing darlings! Every little bit helps.
[Apologies to those of you who tried to donate and got sent to a picture of a lady's pretty hair. It's fixed now. We are such battlers. SORRY TOOVES]
kiki
sassy
lozzy
interns
love you. long time
and I return in kind… http://tooveseverest.blogspot.com/2009/03/oh-errol.html
um sassy i dont know what you did but tooves donation page goes to a picture of a ladies pretty hair.
i lol’d! nice work sass!
ok to top it off i just realised i don’t actually know if it was sassy or kizzy who posted this, and i may have just unnecessarily scolded sassy. TODAY IS A BAD DAY IN THE WORLD OF ERROL
hahahahahaha oh my god we are idiots.
HI TOOVES! WE LOVE YOU!
SHUT UP ALL OF YOU. I WAS HAVING A HECTIC MORNING.
(a hectic morning of looking at pics of pretty hair)
I’ll check my CC and see what I can offer up.
fingers crossed *shifty eyes*
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Possibly because I’ve just wet myself
ok, I’ve donated. Sorry it’s such a ridiculously measly amount.
Hopefully people who actually have jobs will help you out
Have you asked our friends over at Miss Field/cricketwithballs, or perhaps the one who is gaaaaiinfullly employed as a laaawwwyyeerrr?
Thanks Marlo! I would contact them but i prefer websites with a readership
HAHAHAHAHA oh lolz.
so im a bit late with this but have donated because its for a great cause. also while i know there has been a massive amount of thought and preparation in organising the whole event, i kinda like to think that the idea originated after a few drinks at the pub and an argument on where the best place to play a game of cricket would be. please dont correct me if im wrong. good luck mate. hope your team wins.
thanks baz. that’s fricken awesome. I was scratching my head for ages this morning trying to work out where that donation came from!