ON 30 APRIL our intrepid adventurers broke a World Record for playing the highest game of rugby in history, at 6,331m above sea level. The game builds on an earlier record set by the group for the highest ever game of touch rugby at 5,119m....
Today the team remained at Advanced Base Camp, yesterday a group ventured to the area where the world record game of rugby will be played to check out the pitch and playing area. The team are currently in tented accommodation at ABC, back in the earlier...
Just 3 days ago the team set a world record for the highest ever touch rugby game. Today, after a challenging 9 hour walk from intermediate camp the team are now Advance Base Camp on the North side of Everest. At around 6450m the air up there...
Today the challengers spent a rest day at ABC - Advanced Base Camp - acclimatising to the new height of 6,450 metres! Wooden Spoon Rugby Manager Matt Mitchell now only able to communicate via satellite phone, told the official Wooden Spoon LMAX Everest Rugby Challenge website: “The...
The challengers faced a long, tough day today with a nine hour walk from Intermediate Camp to Advanced Base Camp. Advanced Base Camp is at approximately 6,450 metres with the air there at half the pressure we breathe at sea level. Now it's all about resting up...
There was no let up following yesterday's touch rugby world record as the LMAX Exchange Everest Rugby Challengers set off for Intermediate Base Camp today which stands at 5,760 metres. “We’re on our way to Intermediate Base Camp, it’s about 4.30pm and the team has stopped...
The highest ever game of touch rugby has been played at 5,119 metres above sea level as the challengers broke the world record today! The game, played at Everest Base Camp at 12.15pm Nepalase time on Thursday 25 April 2019, ended in a three try draw...
Most evenings in the mess tent have been spent playing card games and quizzes but last night the challengers had a talk from the person who has not only run Everest Base Camp for the last 19 years but reached the summit of Everest 7...
..or Another Exhausting Day at Base Camp, to quote LMAX Exchange Everest Rugby challenger David Fenton, whose insights we hear today. David, in his own words, is retired and old enough to know better but can’t resist the challenge of the outdoors. He has been...
Today saw the team head out for their first 5,400 metres acclimatisation trek. With breakfast on-board the team set off up the first part of the route they will take to the intermediate camp before trekking to the advanced base camp. “It was good to see...