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Biographical Summary – please see below
Acknowledgements: Sponsorship & Support
Barry is engaged for
inspirational lectures with HPC Unilever Export and Barry Callebaut.Barry’s
participation in this expedition would not be possible without the help
and encouragement of the following sponsors and friends (in alphabetical
order) for their financial support and/or equipment in kind:
Apter International: Steve Carter and Marie Shelton have
made a very generous cash contribution towards the cost of the Everest
expedition www.apterinternational.com
Barry Callebaut: Through Simon Hardman FD, this global chocolate producer has pre-booked an inspirational lecture and sent 25kgs of their excellent white chocolate to base camp for the team.
Boots Contract Manufacturing: through Adrian Potter and John Lucey, BCM have provided an enormous stock of skin care products to protect Barry from the harsh sunlight at high altitude.
Blue Heath Direct Ltd: Douglas Gurr has pledged a stock of batteries and other “goodies” that Barry can use to thank his other sponsors.
Kodak: Peter Blackwell MD and Jane Allen have provided all the film stock required for capturing the expedition on film.
The North Face: Barry is a UK North Face Sponsored Athlete and you can see his profile on their website http://www.thenorthface.com/eu/athletes/athletes-BR.html The North Face have provided all of Barry’s clothing including a world-class high altitude down suit, 1-piece Gore-tex suit, base layers, wind stoppers, sleeping bags, gloves, shoes, rucksacks and eye-wear. Thanks to Keith Byrne and Eadaoin Hutchinson for their support.
Prontaprint: Howard Turner and his Kendal team donated the high quality print run of Barry’s “Everest Commercial Sponsorship Opportunities” brochure.
Unilever HPC Export: Barry is already looking forward to working with MD Andy Lamont’s Bristol team again for a pre-booked inspirational post-expedition lecture.
Special thanks to: Dr Jon Dallimore & Dr Sundeep Dhillon.
Biographical Summary
Barry "Baz" Roberts, 42, climbed Mount Everest via the North Ridge,reaching the summit in an impressive 6hrs 10mins from Camp 4 on May 24th2004, having climbed directly from Camp 1 to Camp 3 (900m) two days before.This was his 11th expedition to the Greater Ranges of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush in Nepal, Pakistan and Tibet.
In September 2003 he reached 7800m on Shishapangma 8012m before turning back in chest deep snow (without supplementary oxygen). He has made first ascents of 6000+m peaks in the Karakoram and Hindu Kush and in 1986 was the first to forge a route over the Khurdopin Pass from Snow Lake (at the head of the Biafo Glacier in the Karakoram) to Shimshal village (and back again a week later!). In his professional expedition career spanning 21 years and 20 expeditions, Barry has ski toured, climbed, conducted snow chemistry research and led school groups, British Army Cadets and corporate management trainees and executives on a great variety of expeditions. These have also included a diving research project in Belize and an orphanage building project in Kenya with the Olympic hero Kip Keino.
He is formerly the Wilderness Director of the prestigious Rocky Mountain YMCA in Alberta, a ski patroller and a mountain instructor (in Kenya) and Director of the British charity Raleigh International in London.
Professionally, he is an expert in wilderness medicine and is the Commercial Director of Wilderness Medical Training (www.wildernessmedicaltraining.co.uk) and a Leadership and Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach running a private company, Corporate Interventions Ltd.
He is co-author of a ski touring book, soon to be available online atwww.staying alive offpiste.com. Barry is a passionate ski mountaineer and makes his winter home in Chamonix where he also indulges in climbing, paragliding and skydiving. He blends his careers in wilderness medicine and corporate leadership training with his love of the mountains and wild places and has introduced many corporate "desk jockeys" and doctors to the adrenaline fuelled mountain challenges of the French Alps.
One of his most memorable expedition moments was getting pinned down in the dark on the forest track up Mount Kenya by a grumpy elephant when guiding a group of young Welsh cancer victims! His first expedition at 15 was by open canoe to James Bay through northern Ontario, Canada. He has dreamed about climbing Everest since he was 19 and growing up in the mountainous suburbs of Toronto. Barry will incorporate his Everest story into his corporate inspirational speaking tour.