Team Rycote - Gobi Challenge 2008
Team Rycote for the Gobi Challenge 2008 consists of 3 members - Simon Davies, Ryan Davies & Giles Heeks. Rycote "kindly" agreed to sponsor us to enter the event.
Team Rycote - who are we?
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| Simon Davies | Ryan Davies | Giles Heeks |
Age: 37 Stroud, Glos. UK |
Age: 18 Stroud, Glos. UK |
Age: 35 Gloucester, Glos. UK |
Gobi Challenge 2008 - what is it?
The Gobi Challenge has firmly established itself as one of the World's finest desert events. It is an immense physical and mental challenge, with stunning terrain (including an ice gorge, Asia's highest sand dunes and mountain gorges). The terrain is home to wolves, vultures and nomadic goat herders and is described as one of the least forgiving environments on earth, serving as a real test to the Rycote team’s boundaries. Over the period of a week we will cover 140 miles on foot while carrying all our own food, provisions and mandatory safety gear.
The Gobi Challenge 2008 is held in the Mongolian Desert in July 2008. For more info on the Gobi Challenge 2008 please click here
Follow this link to see where the race starts on Google Maps
Follow this link to see the weather there now.
Our Charity.... The charity we have chosen to support through this event is called: Help for Heroes is strictly non-political organisation set up to support injured British military men, women and their families in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes no position on the rights or wrongs of British military involvement. We have an online donation facility that anyone in the UK or the rest of the world can easily doante to. Please, please donate as this is a very worthy cause. Please click here to donate or visit the page directly with the link below: |
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"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt - April 23, 1910
Thank you very much for taking the time to visit our site.
Kind regards,
Simon Davies
Team Rycote
