http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk One mum's mission to complete the Tour of Mont Blanc for Downderry school Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:49:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it's been almost a year since our great adventure....so i thought i would post a little update regarding what we've been up to and future challenges.  The Tour du Mont Blanc has been my biggest and most rewarding challenge... the impact it had, has affected my whole life and will ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2008/07/06/a-year-on/ That's right... we arrived back yesterday having successfully completed the Tour of Mont Blanc! The eleven stages took us 14 days to complete, due to a couple of rest days and some bad weather (we had two days of snow above 2,000 metres!), but we managed to complete the circuit ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/08/13/weve-done-it/ I'm writing this on the eve of departure! We will be leaving early tomorrow morning to catch a plane at Bristol airport bound for Geneva. The nerves are starting to jangle a little bit, but mostly we're just really, really excited! We've got no accomodation pre-booked at all, so it will ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/07/26/just-one-day-to-go/ Training took a bit of a different turn this weekend... As a birthday treat for Gaëlle, and as a general fitness and confidence boosting session, I booked us for a surfing lesson at Polzeath on Saturday - and the weather brightened especially for the occasion! The sun was shining, the ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/07/09/surfs-up/ Last weekend saw us finally getting fed up with the bad weather and heading off into the elements for a big walk anyway. We left straight out of the front door and along the South West Coast Path from Downderry to the far end of Whitsand Bay and then ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/07/09/wet-n-wild/ As you may have noticed, we haven't posted much in the last couple of weeks. Our training has taken a bit of a knock, firstly with myself getting ill, and then Gaëlle getting ill straight after! On top of that, we've had the horrendous weather that you've all no doubt ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/06/26/apologies-for-the-slight-delay/ Last weekend, we decided to get a bit of practice at sleeping out... This also meant we didn't have to walk so far in a single hit, so Étienne was able to join us! Check out a YouTube video of the weekend here... We drove out to just past Dartmeet on Dartmoor, ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/04/22/howlin-at-the-moon/ We truly were blessed with beautiful weather this Easter bank holiday weekend. Thankfully, Gaëlle and I had arranged to make the most of the long weekend by heading to North Wales. It was to be Gaëlle's first time walking in the mountains - and it turned out to be a ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/04/13/what-a-beautiful-easter-weekend/ Sorry for the lack of posts in the last week or so... I've just got back from a trip to Scotland. I was intending to do a bit of winter walking and ice climbing, but there was very little snow or ice around so had to console myself with some long ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/03/25/snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug/ Gaëlle is pictured here with some of the newspaper articles that have appeared in the local press about our attempt on the Tour of Mont Blanc. Already the hits to the website have increased - hopefully it will have a big impact on sponsorship! On Saturday, we had a photo shoot ... http://www.montblancfordownderry.co.uk/2007/03/07/local-celebrity/