Got an idea for and adventure? Well don't just sit there on the
sofa moping and dreaming, get off your butt and apply for an award
from the Polartec Adventure Challenge.
The scheme, launched by Malden Mills, the manufacturers of
Polartec fabrics, is now in its tenth year and offers what Polartec's
PR agency describes as 'a significant chunk of funding' together with
garments made from Polartec fabrics.
Walking the Pennine Way with llamas or just climbing Mont Blanc
isn't going to hack it with the judges though, they're looking for '
the most compelling, passionate and original adventures'.
In the words of Advisory Board President and without oxygen
Everest sumiteer Stepehn Venables:
'We look for true adventure, a proposal which stretches our
imaginations. For example, we've supported a trio who will
attempt to climb the gigantic south wall of Mount. Nuptse, non-stop.
They expect to take around three days so they'll need to stop
for a brew but sleeping's out - they're travelling so light
they won't even be carrying sleeping bags. Other exciting ventures
include a desert traverse using camels and two kayakers who paddled
the 1000 kilometres along the Antarctic Peninsula - a daunting
feat, bearing in mind they had to battle through Antarctic ice for a
month without any outside support.'
If that sounds like your bag, then get yourself along to the
Polartec web site
for more details and an application form. You've got a bit of
thinking and planning time too, the deadline for entries for 2003
funding is September 2002, so get scheming. Oh, can we come too?
Jon Doran
