Hopes, dreams and accelerated possibilities ...

So I've rather been put on the spot by a few people recently to explain a peculiar purchase of mine ... A Himalayan Down Suit. Yup, that's right a massive sleeping bag like suit of greatness packed full of 800 fill Goose Down.

There are 14 (prominent/dominant?!) places in the world where this thing is necessary and wouldn't cause you to overheat, know where I mean? How about if I use the phrase 8000er? No, still none the wiser? Well let me explain, there are 14 peaks in the world that are over 8000 metres above sea level, the obvious being Everest, closely followed by K2 going 'all' the way down to Shishapangma at 'just' 8027m ...

I want to climb one. Well no, I want to climb ALL of them. All of them without Oxygen - as the Mr Messner says, "by fair means" or not at all.  But for the moment ticking one would be superb, in credit to my heroes Simone Moro and Denis Urbuko I would like it to be Gasherbrum II (which they were the first to climb in Winter, last year with Cory Richards). 

Now I need to work on saving a lot of money and getting my fitness to a very high level, I need to be able to plod and plod and plod, in the freezing cold with the utmost conviction, watch this space. 

The games are a foot.