On reflection

Thinking about the trip as a whole I am reminded of being in Kathmandu having done the trip, all washed up, in many forms of the phrase, but fresh thanks to the lads at Bulldog, a few kilos down, still feeling ill, lying on my guesthouse bed.

It was then that I really felt like we had achieved something out of the ordinary and out of our comfort zones. We were in a developing country having been through hostile terrain that doesn't tolerate life, had literally dug into our bodies to do so and come through it more complete people, an evolution we'd all shared and seen with our own eyes.

Since I being back in the UK it is the execution of what we did that I take pride in. We had a vision and collective responsibility to implement the challenge in a way that would make people who knew us and saw us on TV or in papers proud, and the feedback we've received endorsed this. Finally it is also how people who were close to the organisation have grown as individuals and are looking for this to be the start of something rather than the end.