Each category winner will receive £50 vouchers from Cotswold Outdoor whilst the overall winner will receive £400 vouchers for their school!

Good luck to all of our teams!

Adele summits Everest! (20th May)
In the early hours of this morning, Adele along with 3 Jagged Globe clients and thier Sherpa team, summitted Everest! Last night 3 other Jagged Globe clients reached the summit along with thier Sherpa and guiding team. All are now descending back to Base Camp. A big congratulations to them all!

Adventureworks water safety and skills course (19th May)
At the weekend, 17 leaders gathered in North Wales for the third Adventureworks water safety and skills course. This time the course was a pilot for the Emergency Response Activity Supervisors (ERAS) course certified by the Royal Life Saving Society. All attendees passed this certified course run at a lake, river and sea location.

A report can be found here with photos in our photo gallery

Roger Black at Ash Manor School (18th May)
The team from Ash Manor School who are travelling to Morocco this summer, held a hugely successful fundraising event at their school a few weeks ago. They invited Roger Black, Olympic medal holder and UK athletics hero, to speak to an audience and hold an auction. The event raised over £2000 to go towards their expedition where they will be trekking through the High Atlas Mountains and attempting to summit Djebel Toubkal 4,165m.

Many of our teams hold similar events with speakers provided by Adventureworks. David Pickford is the most recent addition. A renowned climber, he introduces young people to adventure travel and extreme sports such as climbing, mountaineering, and skiing through exciting stories, photographs, and film footage from around the world.
Adele Pennington regales tales of the last 12 months in which she has become Britons foremost female high altitude mountaineer. She is currently leading an expedition to Mount Everest and should be reaching the summit in the next 3 days.
Rhys Jones is also available to schools. In 2006 he became the youngest person to reach the summit of the highest peak on each continent, doing so on his 20th birthday. Since then he has completed other challenges including crossing Greenland and sailing down the Mississippi River in a paper boat!

For more information on any of our speakers and how they can assist you in raising funds for your expedition, please contact Tessa on 0845 345 8850 or email info@adventureworks.co.uk

A real 'Journey of a Lifetime'! (6th May)
Last week, 6 ladies on a fundraising expedition for the UK based charity , Journey of a Lifetime Trust, completed an exploratory expedition into the heart of Borneo's rainforests.

Abseiling down waterfalls, wild camping where leopard footprints were seen and trekking through pristine rainforests were just some of the adventures encountered along the journey!

A full trip report can be viewed here with some photos in our photo gallery

If you would like to follow in the footsteps of these intrepid explorers or do some exploring of your own, please contact either Tess, Claire or Mike who will be happy to talk through our Borneo programmes with you. Please contact 0845 345 8850 or email info@adventureworks.co.uk

Adele on Everest! (5th May)
Adele Pennington, a full time member of the Adventureworks staff and regular expedition leader, is currently leading a team of 13 clients to the summit of Everest!
The team are currently all in base camp during their final acclimatisation stage before their summit push in the next 10 days or so.
You can keep up to date on the teams progress here or on the Jagged Globe website.