The F2K group is now up to 23 members - Yayyyyy! Although admittedly some of them are only observers rather than participants...... but, the more the merrier!
I had a mad idea today - yes, another one - and have made enquiries with the people at Guinness World Records to see if its possible, I can't really say a lot more until I know if someone is up for 1) doing the climbing a mountain thaaaaang and 2) breaking a world record, if there is one available or it can be created. More to follow on that when the person I've emailed with a crazy request gets back to me.
Louie & Di Burns who run Bluesky Pie have both offered to help with the fund raising and marketing of F2K which is brilliant news, their help will be invaluable.
Also, Keith Holland at Googies, Folkestone, home of the world famous in Kent 'Googie Burger' has kindly agreed to let us use Googies for our get together and a date for that should be arranged soon.
Another member of the group, Steve Thompson, has also offered to help us out with equipment and advice as he has several years of mountaineering experience.
F2K is fast becoming a real community project!
I also have a Facebook campaign running to get Ikea to build a store down here in sunny Folkestone, there is no Ikea in Kent and we have to travel 61 miles to visit our nearest one. This sort of blows their ethical image out of the window regarding fuel usage so once we establish who wants to take part in F2K I'm going to contact them with a proposition. The proposition being they sponsor us and we take a lightweight dismantled piece of their furniture and we film it being put together on top of Kilimanjaro. Whether this is feasible I do not know and whether they will pick up how great an advertising opportunity this would be for them, well I don't know that either. If I worked for them in a Marketing capacity I would be straight on this idea, the potential is huge. We could also wear bibs with the Ikea logo on them and the whole experience could be documented on film and photo. A professional photographer from Folkestone, Dan Desborough, has expressed interest in the mountain climbing thaaang so photography would not be a problem. You can thank me later Dan!
Soooo this is the latest state of play, I can't wait to see what develops next!
Friday, 29 October 2010
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Thank you to Kevin James
Firstly, I'd like to thank Kevin James of Margate,Kent for his suggestion of the blog title 'Eff Off To Kay - Folkestone Off To Kilimanjaro', the man is a genius!
Secondly, a bit of background to this blog -
In October 2010 whilst trawling Facebook, as I have been known to do, 'cough cough', I noticed a video on a friends page regarding her recent trip to Africa where she had climbed Kilimanjaro. I watched the video and just thought ' I want to do that!'. I'd previously seen photos from her trip but the video with the music and the beautiful sunrise really brought it home as to how amazing the whole experience was. A local radio station, KMFM, had been heavily promoting trips to Kilimanjaro the previous year but at that time I smoked heavily and knew it would be a ridiculous thing for me to do. However, I gave up smoking in May this year and now feel that I can and will do it! I then decided to sound out a few Facebook friends to see if anybody else would want to do the 'mountain climbing thaaang' and received several replies expressing interest.
Today, Thursday 28th October 2010, I created a Facebook group called = 'Folkestone to Kilimanjaro (F2K) 2010 - 2011 and at the present time has 16 members.
I've been doing some research and have decided that the Marangu Route is the way to go due to the fact that sleeping is done in huts rather than tents.
Why have a bad nights sleep slumming it in a tent when you can get a good nights sleep and be ready and fit to climb the next day sleeping on a mattress in a hut?
I'm also going to arrange a sponsored walk up and down the Zig Zag path in Folkestone, the perfect training route for Kilimanjaro and also some walks up the hills around Folkestone. The Santa Fun Run may also be a good place to fundraise once I know how many people are still interested.
I'm now waiting for Caroline, my inspiration, to return from her two week holiday in Oz and will then be arranging a get together for all interested members to see if they still want to proceed. Another friend will be asking a couple of people she knows who have also done the climb if they will come along to chat to people as well. We need to know everything warts and all!!!
From there we'll see who is still interested and start to research who we should travel with, there are literally hundreds of companies so a lot of research is needed.
It's going to be brilliant!!!!
Secondly, a bit of background to this blog -
In October 2010 whilst trawling Facebook, as I have been known to do, 'cough cough', I noticed a video on a friends page regarding her recent trip to Africa where she had climbed Kilimanjaro. I watched the video and just thought ' I want to do that!'. I'd previously seen photos from her trip but the video with the music and the beautiful sunrise really brought it home as to how amazing the whole experience was. A local radio station, KMFM, had been heavily promoting trips to Kilimanjaro the previous year but at that time I smoked heavily and knew it would be a ridiculous thing for me to do. However, I gave up smoking in May this year and now feel that I can and will do it! I then decided to sound out a few Facebook friends to see if anybody else would want to do the 'mountain climbing thaaang' and received several replies expressing interest.
Today, Thursday 28th October 2010, I created a Facebook group called = 'Folkestone to Kilimanjaro (F2K) 2010 - 2011 and at the present time has 16 members.
I've been doing some research and have decided that the Marangu Route is the way to go due to the fact that sleeping is done in huts rather than tents.
Why have a bad nights sleep slumming it in a tent when you can get a good nights sleep and be ready and fit to climb the next day sleeping on a mattress in a hut?
I'm also going to arrange a sponsored walk up and down the Zig Zag path in Folkestone, the perfect training route for Kilimanjaro and also some walks up the hills around Folkestone. The Santa Fun Run may also be a good place to fundraise once I know how many people are still interested.
I'm now waiting for Caroline, my inspiration, to return from her two week holiday in Oz and will then be arranging a get together for all interested members to see if they still want to proceed. Another friend will be asking a couple of people she knows who have also done the climb if they will come along to chat to people as well. We need to know everything warts and all!!!
From there we'll see who is still interested and start to research who we should travel with, there are literally hundreds of companies so a lot of research is needed.
It's going to be brilliant!!!!
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