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!
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