Hi, the organisation and training for the british-dutch fundraising expedition Trans-Alaska 2012 (non-commercial) is on its way. The expedition will cross Alaska from east to west with dogsled, on ski's, by foot and with canoe (3 months, March/April-June 2012). En route a mountain top in the Alaska range will be climbed (non-technical, ca. 4000 m). The training and expedition is still open for participants. Keywords: remote outdoors (nature), challenge, team, learning, fundraising (outdoor sport for disabled). Interested and insprired? look at our website: www.trans-alaska2012.com. Friendly regards, Frances
????? I don't know why that is the case, it is completely regular and authorized (and paid for...). I will ask the provider, maybe it is not the case when you go to www.trans-alaska2012.eu. You come into the dutch version then, if you click at the british flag, it will connect you to the british version of the site (which is www.trans-alaska2012.com. The provider connected them. Sorry about this, thank you for mentioning it. Regards, Frances.
What actually is a fondraising trip? Seems to be very popular in the english-speaking word, and totally unknown outside it... I used to think it is a trip the participants go somewhere and ask people they meet for money, but since it's Alaska, I guess I'm wrong
Well, I hope the website explains it. I might have used the word wrongly (as I am dutch). The expedition is set up because a couple of people are really enthousiastic to make this journey just in itself. Then the idea developed, as some of us work with disabled people, to raise money to support a beneficiary fund (giving training, selling t-shirts, donating money for the stages and top made, etc.). Ofcourse that doesn't mean big money at all, but we thought it would be nice if the journey had some kind of offspin for society. Then the idea came to bring along disabled persons who are capable. A woman with a partial spinal cord lesion joined us in training in Scotland. The expedition members pay their way themselves (we are not a travel company, so there is no profit anywhere, we organise everything ourselves; for guidance and instruction we hire a professional guide), but we thought it might be possible to raise money for disabled persons to be able to join (a part) of the journey. So this is the story. We don't know how far we get and whether or not we can realise the fundraising part as planned, but we thought it was worth the effort to give it a try. In any case we work on the expedition as such (organising, training) to make it happen for us and we have some places still open for participation. I hope this is a sufficient answer for you, if not, don't hesitate to ask further questions. Regards, Frances
