I wanna be like Rafa

Hello and welcome to my first attempt at creative personal writing since the age of 11! Should be about the same standard

So we've been asked to start a little blog about theeverest.com and all that it entails...I'm not going to bore you with the history of it all and what and why we 50 few are trekking to the highest montain in the world to play a spot of twenty20 - I'm going to bore you instead with my personal journey over the next 9 months from feeble mortal to Rafa-like powerhouse. (I'm watching the Wimbledon final and getting some inspiration from Nadal's shear strength - what does he feed those pythons?!?)

I, like everyone else, have been on board for almost 3 months - getting more and more excited and more and more scared about the roles we are all undertaking. I'm in charge of shooting a documentary of all our progress over the next year and also whilst we're up there. Paul Stadden is my other half on this and we have a few ideas about how to keep this fresh, inspirational and funny. Almost everything this blog isn't!

As well as the doc, I thought a good way to build up some momentum and interest, and just cos its awesome, is to shoot a Team Hilary music video, with the 15 or so us us pissing about trying to either cover Vanilla Ice's seminal work "Ice Ice Baby" or indeed, The Zutons "Valerie", a track who's sole inclusion was that we could replace the title with our own, Hilary. There's much method in our madness as you can see.

Well as an introduction to me and our struggle for greatness, please except this 1st stab at cohesive thought as acceptable, and if you stopped reading 25 lines ago, I dont you blame you!

Next time - fitness, and my lack of it.....

M