Team 800
With Sponsorship, our team name will have the sponsor's name as a prefix; "(Sponsor) Team 800"
South Pole Race 2011/12
" A great team worthy of support. The very best of luck - you'll need it down there!" Sir Ranulph Fiennes November 2009.Mary Ward House Interview day!
Oliver's report:
My next challenge is.... The South Pole Race.
In which I have to raise over £31k. YAH!
This will be a very, very hard challenge and a much higher risk than the North Pole. The North Pole was 70 miles and the South Pole race will be 430 nautical miles across the largest ice mass. Also, the race will take place in Mid Dec - Mid Feb 2011/12, which will coincide with the anniversary of Captain Scott's expedition 100 years ago (he was the first person to explore Antarctica.) I will be the first deaf person to explore Antarctica.
Date: South Pole Race - Mid Dec - Mid Feb 2011/12.
This race will only have 30 places (teams of 3 ) and it is scheduled for Dec 2011 to Feb 2012. Because of the high cost involved, participants are only able to do this with the aid of sponsorship.
Following a BBC TV documentary by James Cracknell about the South Pole a few months ago, lots of people applied for the 30 places available for this challenge. The places were quickly filled, with over 200 people on a waiting list, desperate to be one of the 30 if someone drops out.
I was offered to lead a team of three, which was very good news to me. I had a meeting with South Pole Race committee in August and they agreed to give me a TWO week deadline to find my other team members with the proviso that it had to be from their short list (Policy). The Committee sent me over twenty applications from which I made a shortlist of nine. It was now down to me to interview the applicants for the two places in my team. The interviews took place on Tuesday 8th September 2009.
I invited my very good friend Tyron Woolfe to assist me in the interview process.
The BBC See Hear Team was present and filming when Tyron and I interviewed all nine applicants at the Victorian Library, Mary Ward House, this was to get a real "Captain Scott" feel for the day.
It was a very difficult time deliberating over who to select - I had thirty minutes to interview each one to find out as much as I could about them. The standard was incredibly high and all applicants gave a very good interview.
The 2 men that we picked had a lot of experience, especially that of extreme environments. This wealth of experience was considered most useful for a team to race for the South Pole and in particular, I will learn lots from them over the next two years of training for our challenge.
I decided to visited their office to surprise them with the offer for them to join my team - I was delighted that they accepted it.
We all officially signed South Pole Race contract on Saturday 12th September 2009 - the Deadline day.
You can read bit about their profile via "about race" on right side.
You can find out more about Captain Scott on - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/scott
05/11/2009
My next challenge is.... The South Pole Race.
In which I have to raise over £31k. YAH!
This will be a very, very hard challenge and a much higher risk than the North Pole. The North Pole was 70 miles and the South Pole race will be 430 nautical miles across the largest ice mass. Also, the race will take place in Mid Dec - Mid Feb 2011/12, which will coincide with the anniversary of Captain Scott's expedition 100 years ago (he was the first person to explore Antarctica.) I will be the first deaf person to explore Antarctica.
Date: South Pole Race - Mid Dec - Mid Feb 2011/12.
This race will only have 30 places (teams of 3 ) and it is scheduled for Dec 2011 to Feb 2012. Because of the high cost involved, participants are only able to do this with the aid of sponsorship.
Following a BBC TV documentary by James Cracknell about the South Pole a few months ago, lots of people applied for the 30 places available for this challenge. The places were quickly filled, with over 200 people on a waiting list, desperate to be one of the 30 if someone drops out.
I was offered to lead a team of three, which was very good news to me. I had a meeting with South Pole Race committee in August and they agreed to give me a TWO week deadline to find my other team members with the proviso that it had to be from their short list (Policy). The Committee sent me over twenty applications from which I made a shortlist of nine. It was now down to me to interview the applicants for the two places in my team. The interviews took place on Tuesday 8th September 2009.
I invited my very good friend Tyron Woolfe to assist me in the interview process.
The BBC See Hear Team was present and filming when Tyron and I interviewed all nine applicants at the Victorian Library, Mary Ward House, this was to get a real "Captain Scott" feel for the day.
It was a very difficult time deliberating over who to select - I had thirty minutes to interview each one to find out as much as I could about them. The standard was incredibly high and all applicants gave a very good interview.
The 2 men that we picked had a lot of experience, especially that of extreme environments. This wealth of experience was considered most useful for a team to race for the South Pole and in particular, I will learn lots from them over the next two years of training for our challenge.
I decided to visited their office to surprise them with the offer for them to join my team - I was delighted that they accepted it.
We all officially signed South Pole Race contract on Saturday 12th September 2009 - the Deadline day.
You can read bit about their profile via "about race" on right side.
You can find out more about Captain Scott on - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/scott
05/11/2009
