Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth completed the Ride London – Essex 100 on 29th May 2022 raising over £1,000 in sponsorship for the Trust. Nick has been in training since March and has been gradually building up the distances to get ready for the big event. Here’s his reaction to […]
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23May 2022 Some fantastic news from Mt Everest! We’ve been following Reservist Garth’s Miller’s journey to Everest and back. Here’s Garth’s latest post… “Thank you for following along on this adventure. On 20 May, for a few short minutes, I had the summit of Mount Everest to myself. 24 hrs later, I summited Lhotse (the
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Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth has got a smile on his face. After many weeks of early starts and cycling in sub-zero temperatures Nick has passed his target of £1,000 in sponsorship. Nick is raising money for The Ulysses Trust by cycling the Ride London – Essex 100 on 29th
Penal Company on the Falklands: A Memoir of the Parachute Regiment at War 1982 Our Vice Chairman, Phil Neame, has recently published his memoir about his time serving with the Parachute Regiment in the 1992 Falklands War . “One of the finest Falklands accounts, written by a man who was in the heart of the
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We are delighted to have two new recruits join our board of Trustees. Polly Marsh and Colonel Paul Edwards MBE have been volunteering for the Trust as members of our Grants Applications Committee in Spring 2021 and have recently accepted the invitation to join our Board of Trustees. Polly is passionate about young people being
14 May 2022 “I Leave Base Camp tonight. Plan below. Weather looks to turn unsettled from 20th so this is it!” 15 May: Camp 2 (6,400m) 16 May: Camp 3 (7,300m) 17 May: South Col leave for the summit at 10pm that night 18 May: Summit Everest (8,848.86 m) and back to Camp 4 19
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14 May 2022 Back at Base Camp following what for me was a tough 4 day acclimatisation rotation beyond Camp 2. Photo 1. The first ladder in the Icefall. As Pasang stepped off the other end it pinged off and disappeared from view, left hanging out of sight by a single rope. We hauled it
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09 May 2022 Time to move up. I leave Base Camp in a few hours, heading through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1 at 6000m. There the plan is to rest and hydrate for 24hrs before moving up the Western Cwm to Camp 2 at 6400m. I’ll spend two nights there, allowing time to explore
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09 May 2022 I’m setting off through the Khumbu Icefall at 0200 tonight. The plan is to stay at Camp 1 at just over 6000m in the Western Cwm tomorrow night before moving to Camp 2 at around 6400m for two nights after that. In that time I’ll spent a day climbing up the lower
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08 May 2022 A great day. Testing and prep’ing my oxygen set and climbing in the Khumbu Icefall with the legend Da Jangbu Sherpa (13 Everest summits). My previous experience of Everest was from the Tibetan side which has nothing like this! Perhaps the most famous and feared section of the climb from Nepal is
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07 May 2022 Following a short acclimatisation hike today, tomorrow sees my first exploratory foray into the Khumbu Icefall. The icefall is a maze of fixed lines, ladders and abseils through constantly shifting glacial terrain. It’s certainly not for the faint hearted. Starting just above Base Camp at around 5350m it tops out close to
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06 May 2022 Arrived at Everest Base Camp less than 90hrs after leaving London – that’s going some! A more typical schedule would be 11 days or so. The hard work begins now. Garth Miller
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02 May 2022 En route to Everest. Having previously turned back just a couple of hundred metres from the summit I’ve changed strategy for 2022. This time, rather than climb from Tibet on the northern side of the mountain, I’ve switched to the more commonly climbed South Col route. The final 24hrs of the climb
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Reservist attempts to beat record London – Everest – London. On Monday 2nd May Army Reservist Garth Miller embarked on a unique expedition to Nepal in an attempt to set the ‘fastest known time’ from London to the summit of Mt Everest and back again. Garth’s ambitious ‘Man V Mountain’ expedition coincides with the Trusts’
The Ulysses Trust is proud to announce the publication of our Annual Review 2021. Since 1992, we have supported over 38,000 cadets and reservists to undertake more than 2,900 expeditions. The Annual Review contains a detailed summary of our work in 2021 and how this compares to previous years. In terms of results and in
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Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth CBE FRGS is back in the saddle, once more, raising funds for The Ulysses Trust. Nick completed the Ride London – Surrey 100 in 2018 and again in 2019 to raise funds for the Trust. And he’s doing it all again in 2022! ‘With events
We are delighted to announce The Ulysses Trust’s 2021 Outcome Measurement Results. This is the third year of data capture and the results tell us it has been another fantastic year for The Ulysses Trust! As a result of our survey we are pleased to report the outcomes of our service is as follows: 100%
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Our Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal Nick Kurth, attended an Air Focus Group (AFG) lunch at the RAF Club last week. Earlier in the year the AFG made a generous donation to The Ulysses Trust to support an Air Cadet expedition undertaken by 282 (East Ham) Squadron Royal Air Force Air Cadets in Snowdonia – Ex: Summit
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