The Plan for 2015!

If you want a quick overview of our plan for 2 Reason Trek this year just click the image below. For up to date information and progress on our adventures visit our NEWS page.

Everest Basecamp Trek 2014

To check out what happened on our trek to Everest basecamp in 2014 just click the news button. There's heaps of photos and updates. Also check out our video below for a quick overview of what happened. It was a really intense experience that nearly resulted in Lucy dying....just watch it.

In the NEWS....paper

 We want to just say a big thank you to the Courier newspaper for writing a story on the 2 Reason Trek. In particular we would like to thank Natalie Koufos for driving all the way to our house and doing the interview as well as taking the picture. If you weren't able to get your hands on the article give it a read below. 

EVEREST in 10 Facts

We stumbled upon an article on the internet titled Everest: Sixty Fascinating Facts and thought it was worth sharing. Instead of you trawling through all sixty of them, we picked our top ten favourites. Hope you enjoy them and learn a thing or two...maybe you could even use them as your next conversation starter.

• 1. The summit of Mount Everest is only just lower than the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet.

• 2. A Sherpa has the record for the longest stay on the summit, a frostbite-inducing 21 hours, which was achieved by Babu Chiri Sherpa in 1999.

• 3. In 1856, the mountain was named after George Everest, a retired Surveyor General who never even saw the peak.

• 4. The first two men to snowboard down Everest were the Frenchman Marco Siffredi and Austrian Stefan Gatt in May 2001. In September 2002 Mr Siffredi attempted to descend the mountain a second time, choosing the steepest and most hazardous route. However, this proved to be a challenge too far, and he disappeared midway through the descent.

• 5. The oldest person to climb Everest is 80 year-old Yuichiro Miura of Japan.

• 6. It normally takes around 12 hours to climb the final mile from the highest Base Camp to the summit.

• 7. The temperature at the summit never rises above freezing, averaging -36C in winter and -19C in summer.

• 8. Every year the mountain grows taller by 4mm as a result of the upward thrust generated by two opposing tectonic plates.

• 9. Everest has now even been mapped by Google, although it did not get to the summit. In 2011, a team spent 12 days walking more than 70 miles to reach Everest base camp to capture images for Google maps.

• 10. Eight tonnes of rubbish collected from the slopes of Everest (including the remains of a helicopter) were turned into works of art and sculpture to highlight the issue of littering on its slopes. It took 65 porters and 75 yaks to carry down the rubbish from the mountain over two spring expeditions.

source: www.telegraph.co.uk 

Letter from Our Home

Lucy and I where so happy to open our inbox and find this awesome letter of encouragement from Chacko (the head of Our Home). The encouragement comes at just the right time as we begin preparations for Everest Basecamp which is approaching fast! We didn't edit the spelling or language in the letter because we like it way better this way.  

Dear Boy Jordan and Lucy 

    I am very much thrilled to hear that you are doing the adventures fund raising for the kids of Our Home .we are lucky to have people like you in our home family . Please colect the pictures and I can show the kids the way you make the money to meet their needs .

    We as Our Home wishes all the best for this adventures fundraising .

  It would be a great end of the story of the fundraiser if you visit Our Home after the trucking and get pictures along with the kids and we will make party for the success with the kids .  

    Thanks and we all wish to hear from you .

Chacko k Mathew

Our Home 

Vyppadi , Arampattakunnu po

Kalpetta , wayanad dist 

Kerala .south india.

www.ourhomecommunity.org

Bandicoot Trail

We decided to stretch our legs this morning by walking the Bandicoot Trail, which runs through Aldgate and Mylor and has some awesome spots along the way. With only 3 weeks to go we've realised that we have to get our butts into gear and lots of walking is the best way to do it. There are hundreds of walks just like this throughout Adelaide so when you've got a spare moment, or if you just need to clear your head, go for a walk!    

Published in Australian Geographic!

We wrote to Australian Geographic Outdoor and they PUBLISHED our letter! We just wanted to say a big thank you to them for getting the Our Home Charity name out there. It has been our intention since we decided on doing this trek to raise awareness of Our Home and this was a giant step for us in achieving that goal. So thanks heaps Australian Geographic!