Tweed Valley Everest Challenge

30/06/2021

Tweed Valley Everest Challenge ⛰

✍️ From the Tweed Valley Everest Challenge team.

Back in June, a group of 7 riders set out to ascend the height equivalent to Everest on mountain bikes at 'The Golfie' in the Tweed Valley in 24 hours. It was never going to be an easy challenge, 48 laps of the climb and descending the famous Flat White trail (it isn’t very flat).

Each lap was around 3.5km and had 190m of climbing meaning the lap solely consisted of up or down and in total equated to over 9000m of ascent and 165km.

The event was organised and ran by a group of Borders College students, as part of their HND course, and a couple of them even took part in completing the Everest Challenge.

The Tweed Valley is known for its world-class network of mountain bike trails and walker’s paths, it is the perfect destination for outdoor enthusiasts. As mountain bikers, we know how dangerous situations can occur quickly when out in the hills, so knowing we have the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue to help us when something goes wrong makes our everyday environments far safer.

Therefore, we chose to donate the money in which we raised to the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue. Our initial target was £500, and we thought we were being ambitious at that…

Back to the challenge, the boys started off very strong by doing each lap in around 23 minutes, they completed 5 laps at a time then would have a 10-15 minute break to refuel. They were all still going very well as the night drew in, they received some extra support from their coaches and friends which was a good morale boost!

After 11 and a half hours of pedalling, they were halfway there. Once it reached about 1 in the morning the morale had dropped and the riders were definitely feeling the effects from the lack of sleep, and as it was dark, they were having to concentrate far harder on the descent, the night was hard, really hard.

However, once the sun started to rise so did the moods of the riders, by 7 am they only had 10 laps to go! Each rider had their ups and downs and without the support from each other and all the people that came along to do a lap with them, it would have been a lot harder, when the fellow BASE students came along at around 10am the boys were deep in the pain cave, but they lined the track to cheer the boys on as they rolled through.

Finally, after 24 hours of riding, they had completed it!

Words will never describe how hard Josh Noble from Peebles, Jayden Randell from Peebles, Lewis Brown from Innerleithen, Ben Jackson from Innerleithen, Wes Fife from Innerleithen, Johnny Bouch from Peebles and Shay Hayton from Innerleithen, had to try to complete this challenge. It is such an incredible and inspiring performance from each of them, and one they will never forget!

In the end, we managed to raise over £2200 for Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue, and we could not thank everyone enough for donating and supporting us!

Many Thanks 👏
The Team behind the Tweed Valley Everest Challenge

17/05/2021

Just wanted to give a huge shoutout to Linda - she’s another student on the second year HND course at borders college and helped us organise the event as part of the committee. She also sat at the bottom in the pits for the full 24 hours, made a raffle to help raise money for the mountain rescue and kept everyone in good spirits along the way!

16/05/2021

We’d just like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who supported us and donated to the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue We smashed our target of £500 and are so close to £2000 😱 so thank you for making the hard times worth it! 🥰🤩

14/05/2021

And they have done it! They gave it their all and smashed the Everest Challenge🤩 well done everyone!!

12/05/2021

If you are wondering what it’s like to attempt the Everest Challenge have a look at this video of Josh Noble and Jayden Randell attempting it last year!

We tried to complete the Everest Climbing challenge on Enduro mountain bikes and trails at Cadmiur Forest! This involved myself (Josh noble) and my friend Ja...

10/05/2021

With the Everest Challenge only a few days away it's time to meet the team who are attempting Everest:

Johnny Bouch
Jayden Randell
Josh Noble
Wes Fife

30/04/2021

The Mountain Rescue is vital to the mountain biking and outdoor community, many of us have seen the Mountain Rescue in action and they do an incredible job of providing the help we need in difficult and dangerous situations. 🚑 🚁

So as part of our Everest Challenge we have chosen to donate the money we hope to raise to our local mountain rescue, Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team

If you can donate please follow the link below 😊 during the challenge we will be providing updates via the Facebook and Instagram so be sure to follow along!

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26/04/2021

Borders College BASE Mountain Biking students are taking on a 'mountain' of a challenge and aiming to climb the height of Mount Everest (8849m) in 24 hours right here in the Scottish Borders Tweed Valley. 🗻

The challenge will take place on the 13th and 14th of May 21 at The Golfie, Innerleithen, and has been organised to raise as much money as possible for the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team, who provide a vital service in the area.

Stay up to date with what’s going on by visiting Tweed Valley Everest Challenge, and tell your friends!

You can also donate here: https://bit.ly/2QUkrma

24/04/2021

Just one of the many reasons why the mountain rescue are so important to us!

10/04/2021

So, the Everest challenge...
We aim to climb the elevation of Everest by repeating the same trail and climb until the elevation is matched. For this we will be lapping the iconic flat white trail at the much loved Innerleithen golfie! The lap has a total of 180m of climbing, meaning that we will have to complete 48 laps of the loop to make it to the summit!! It’s a big ridiculous idea really but it’s for a good cause!! We now have set up a fundraising page and are now taking donations. 100% of the 💰 raised will be going straight to Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue for the amazing job they do here in the tweed valley! The link is in the bio for the fundraising page! Any donations would be much appreciated !!

31/03/2021

Hello everyone!!
Welcome to the official Facebook of the 2021 Tweed Valley Everest Challenge brought to you by the 3rd year Borders College BASE mountain biking students. As the name suggests, we aim to climb the height of Mount Everest (8849m) in 24 hours right here in the Tweed Valley. We are aiming to raise as much money as possible for the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue group and information of how to donate will be provided very shortly! So drop us a follow to stay up to date with what’s going on and tell your friends! More information to follow! LET’S DO THIS!!