At present the Strata staff are busy running expeditions to far flung corners of the world. The intention was that this blog would be updated on a regular basis but both expeditions have proved a little fast moving and time has conspired against us.
Robin is currently in Cusco, Peru trying hard to keep the expedition on track on a bit of a tight budget! So far the group, including Robin, have mountain biked down 2500m out of the Andes into the Amazon rainforest and then white water rafted to a remote environmental studies centre on the banks of one of the Amazon tributaries!! That not being enough they have then dug foundations and layed out a playground in a community near Cusco, visited Machu Pichu and recently returned from a 5 day trek into another Inca ruin. Robin is ready to come home and sleep for about a week but before that happens the group are heading up to Huraz in the north of Peru where they hope to summit a 5600m mountain over 5 days! I hope this lot know how lucky they are to experience all of this in such a short timespan.
Claire on the other hand is in the Ukraine where it is currently raining rather heavily!! Her group has been working on a project near Kiev and is currently holed up in a nice hotel waiting for the rain to stop before heading out on a trek in the Carpathian mountains. This may be made a little difficult by the fact that there have been 45 bridges washed out in the area and the national park they were due to visit has closed!
The life of an expedition leader!!!
We will both be back in the UK in the beginning of August to plan our next trip and there is something about a wedding that needs to be sorted to. There are also plans afoot for a new drive for Strata Medical aiming to increase the branding and move forward into 2009. All pretty exciting really, keep in touch for more news.
‘A boys will is the winds will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts’ LONGFELLOW, My lost Youth.