Sponsorship We received sponsorship from three different organisations: The University College London Expedition and Travel Committee
£3,000
The British Mountaineering Council and the UK Sports Council
£600
The Mount Everest Foundation (Ref: MEF 04/27)
£500
We were also given support by way of discounted equipment from the following companies: First Ascent UK (UK providers for Black Diamond, MSR, Platypus, Therm-a-Rest and more) Rab Carrington Wayfayrer Foods We would like to thank: Ingrid Crossland and First Ascent for supplying us with more equipment than we could possibly have hoped to use; Steve Bridges and the rest of Rab for keeping us warm and looking good out in the mountains; also, Karen Gill, Natalie Winmill and Wayfayrer Foods for their tasty pouches which were infinitely less effort to cook at the end of hard day’s climbing. And for going one step further and just giving the stuff away, we would also like to thank: Nikwax Waterproofing
Additional Help and support A number of people lent us equipment and we would like to acknowledge the following people: Dave Barlow Eric Schaberg Richard Lee Ian Lau
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