“I am currently out of the office, as I am climbing Mt Everest”

You know you are up to something pretty special when you have an out-of-office message like that. With all their training and preparation now done the Australian Everst 2010 Team were given a fitting send-off last night before jetting off the Katmandu to start the adventure of their lives.

Col Crawford BMW are the proud major sponsors of the team, with Anthony Kearns, Dealer Pricipal opening proceedings. He wished the team safe journey, and he looks forward to seeing the model BMW X6 on the top of Everest, as well as bringing them back when they return to talk of their adventure. Anthony will be joning them team at Base Camp in May – hopefully to celerate their successful summit.

We were honoured to be joined by state MP, Mike Baird, who has wholeheartedly thrown his support behind the team. He spoke of the passion, dedication and good old Northern Beaches character that will get the team to Summit and home safetly.

The aim of the climb is raise much-needed funding plus awareness of Bowel Cancer. Team member, Sandy Hoby, is a Bowel cancer survivor and Stephen Bock, lost his father at an early age to the disease.

Charlie Frew from Bowel Cancer Australia addressed the send-off stating ” No-body wants to talk about Bowel Cancer, yet its Australia’s second biggest cancer killer – and also very preventable and cureable if caught early. These climbers are not just raiding funds but have already helped to significantly increase the awareness of this disease. I tahnk them all for what they have already done, and what they are about to acheive.”

Follow the teams’ progress by checking back at our blog.