It started with a simple idea from Stuart Henderson. Could we collectively cover the height of Mount Everest through walking, cycling and stepping while raising funds for Alzheimer’s Society.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 Gary McIntosh (𝗧𝗼𝘀𝗵) 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝘂𝗽.
Before most people had even settled into the challenge, he had already covered 11,560m on his own. Well beyond the original Everest target of 8,848m. At that point the team had two choices. Hold the line or raise the bar.
Together, they raised it.
What followed was a shift in energy across the team. Everest stopped feeling like the goal and became the starting point, with the question changing from whether it could be done to how far the team could push it together.
By the end of the month 33 people had taken part, covering 55,604m and raising £385. The challenge climbed beyond Everest and into the mesosphere.
The numbers are impressive but not the point. What matters is how it happened. People took part in their own time, outside of work, encouraging each other and pushing the challenge further without being asked.
Built around a shared challenge and a cause that mattered to them, SQEP Goes Vertical quickly became something much bigger than the original idea. It shows what happens when SQEP people rally together. They turn ambitious goals into even bigger achievements.
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