Long time, no hear

14 Apr 4:21 am by Mark Kalch Category: The Expedition

Hello all. Apologies (again, I think) for the lack of news or updates of our post-expedition goings-on. Rest assured it is continuing to be a hectic time for Nathe and I.

Nathe has recently returned to Australia and is currently in Sydney, NSW awaiting the arrival of the expedition gear we have shipped back to Australia.

Meanwhile I am in London, getting the hang of the big city life. It is often surreal, as I walk past Downing Street and Buckingham Palace, to think less than 2 months ago, we were both on Skop Gat, rowing our way to the Atlantic Ocean! I have accepted a position with a company called Charity Challenge, as their Asian Expedition Manager. I am stoked! My role, briefly, entails being responsible for all their Asian region expeditions. This includes Everest Base Camp treks, summiting mountains in India, exploring the hills in North Vietnam, the wonder of Mongolia and many more awesome experiences. All in the name of adventure and charity! I start in early May, leaving me no excuse not to be cracking on with post-expedition work. Still ploughing through our 6000 odd photos and sending off copies to sponsors, along with gear testimonials and soon enough some video clips. Storm Case , in particular have requested a 3 minute clip focusing on our use of their cases throughout the expedition, to use at trade fairs world-wide. This is my most pressing task of the coming week and I am looking forward to it. As for other tasks, the list is endless! Sponsors…we have not forgotten our commitment to you!!!

If you are hungry for more Amazon adventures then do I have some great news for you! Hop over to Walking the Amazon. Ed Stafford and Luke Collyer are 2 Pommy adventurers who have just set off to walk the entire length of the Amazon River, from Mismi to the Atlantic! They expect to take between 16 and 18 months to complete their journey. I am amped to follow them as they face the trials of such a huge undertaking. Nathe and I have been in touch with the boys already and it is so far, so good. Our best wishes and full support go with them.

Keep checking back to our site also, as we post more news regarding some of the resulting media exposure the Expedition Amazonas has ganered thus far. If there is nothing new when you check in, please just curse under your breath and do not give up, there will be new posts along shortly…

4 Comments »

Buffy and Nathe - Carpe Diem my friends!!!

Comment by Matt Kalch — April 14, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
YAY - good to hear from you MEN!

lexy x

Comment by Lexy — April 14, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Hi guys

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear that everything is going great with you both (maybe not so much the wait on gear Nathan!)

Take care

Janelle, Dave and Finn

Comment by Janelle — April 14, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
Hi Boy’s,

Hope you are in good health and spirit. It is an amazing thing that you have done and allthough time has passed and all that was set out to achieve has been done. You must not let that feeling that you both had experienced on the bouy that was to be the signal that you have achieved it - the dreams and hopes became reality. It will always be hard to keep something burning inside that is such a high point - but you must not let the things in front of you dampen that torch as it is you that has done this and it is you who can only get up in the morning and turn up the heat.

When such a great achievement has taken place it is common-place that those involved experience some personal trying times as they search within again and wonder what possibly could replace what they have just experienced - well those who have done so and then kept on going on to higher and greater achievements - from what I can see have taken these achievements and almost refounded themselves through the experiences they took in their achievement and made it a new foundation that they could then move forward in life from.

In essence every time they achieve something that may be seen to be the highest point - they then seem to be able to take that and form it as their new low point.

I think it can be veiwed like watching a stock price on a graph - a stock will go to a record new price then come back to a point below this and again start to make its way up to that high again - this can continue for a while and then all of a sudden it will create a new high again and when it comes back down from that - the lowest point that it seems to not go below is what was the record high not so long before. It is as if as all the focus was on the new high and wether this new high can be sustained - a little fear comes in and it keeps dropping back - then back up to the new high and back down again - thiscysles over until one day the price goes past the new high and into unchartered territory, it keeps on going up and reached a new new high. Now it is at this point that when it comes back from this new new high point that a new low point is also created as the price now seems to not go below the first new high. So what was once feared of not being able to go above - is now the point that does not go below.

If we look at this and say well I might have some backyard movement along the way but I know by moving forward that this new high point that I have created in my life will soon be my bottom out. I will soar above it and create new highs as I go and soon will be moving from Glory to Glory. Saint Paul wrote 2000 years ago about this and he said that we must never look back but only forward as the prize is always ahead of us. He says that we must go from Glory to Glory meaning that we can never sit back on what we have done as there is something greater ahead and in summary if we look at Saint Paul’s life he had some lows but he surely had a life full of high points as even when he was shipwrecked with nothing he is able to turn it to Glory.

Boy’s keep on keeping on as this great adventure that you have completed will soon become the point that you won’t go below as there are many more great achievements that have been prepared for you and I am sure that you will see each one.

God Bless - hope this can make sense a little

I leave you with this thought -
If we look at where a person has reached great achievement (achievement that is unquestionable), if we look at their lives - before this great achievement became known to all, a great amount of sacrifice, trial and suffering took place in their lives. Without doubt through this - people we now know as great achievers lost the drive for themself and found a drive for other people - they took up a fight that was well outside themself - they put their hands up and said - God use me to help all these people who come after me. One of the greatest of these is Dr Martin Luther King - who gave his life to see others free.

Comment by Mick — April 19, 2008 @ 9:23 am