ExpeditionOz Services blog » Climbing http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog Where the Journey is more important than the destination...usually. Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:00:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 2009 Land Rover G4 Challenge entries open http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/04/08/2009_land_rover_g4_challenge_entries_open http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/04/08/2009_land_rover_g4_challenge_entries_open#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:06:25 +0000 Mick http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/04/08/2009_land_rover_g4_challenge_entries_open Received an email today from Land Rover Australia highlighting that entries are now open for the 2009 Land Rover G4 Challenge.

Land Rover G4 Challenge
It’s on again.

Land Rover invite you to register to see if you’re good enough to represent Australia against a total of 36 men and women from 18 countries in the world’s ultimate adventure.

This is the third Land Rover G4 Challenge, and it’s planned to take place over three weeks, in Asia, in 2009.

You will run up mountains, cycle down valleys, kayak rivers, swing from bridges, and of course drive for thousands of miles against the clock, and your rivals.

And you’ll be helping to raise funds for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society. As part of the International Federation partnership, Land Rover will also donate a vehicle to the National Red Cross, or the Red Crescent Society, associated with the winning team at the Challenge Finals.

This is arguably the toughest challenge in the world. Land Rover wouldn’t have it any other way.

Are you up to the challenge? Click here.

2008 Promo Video

Hmmm…as tempting as it sounds (and looks), i imagine i would get out-classed by some 24 year old extreme outdoor adventure junkie….though i’m sure that I could still give him a run for his money ;)

Anyway…the deadline for entries into the Australian National Selections is 5pm EST on July the 15th, 2008.

2006 Land Rover G4 Challenge video (i think)

]]> http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/04/08/2009_land_rover_g4_challenge_entries_open/feed 0 The urge to climb http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/02/08/the_urge_to_climb http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/02/08/the_urge_to_climb#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:07:18 +0000 Mick http://www.expeditionoz.com/blog/2008/02/08/the_urge_to_climb I used to do a little bit of climbing (both indooors and outdoors) a few years ago, and for the last few months I have had this nagging feeling in my head telling me that i need to get out and dangle from a rope again.

While i have a few climbing and bouldering spots not to far from the ExpeditionOZ HQ in the Upper Yarra Valley as well as the not to distant Victorian Alps, this feeling is more akin to what i had when i spent a few days mucking around the areas of the Matterhorn and the Grand St Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps in 1992.

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While i think this whole do i want to hang from a mountain thing over in my head, i’ll leave you with two great videos from YouTube that i found.

The first video shows Gaston Rebuffat climbing the Matterhorn quite a few years ago without a lot of technical equipment or many pre-set anchor points…quite hairy-raising stuff…

The second video is a short trailer from an IMAX movie called “The Alps”. Parts of this clip, which are shot on the Eiger, make my stomach react as if i was in a plane which has just dropped a hundred meters really quickly…it’s such amazing stuff though and makes me really want to get out and climb something big :)

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