it's charity time!

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]