Doug Platts
Hi, so first of all a little bit about myself. I’m 25, which actually makes me the youngest of the climbers – they’re an old bunch 
I’m a Natural Search Analyst and have been working for our company for around a year.
Before I started university and throughout my degrees, I made the most of holidays to travel as much 
as possible. Some of the countries I have travelled around are India, Egypt, Thailand, as well as whilwind trip to the states earlier this year where I went to Washington D.C., New York City and of course Disney World – can’t miss that out. I have done some trekking before on my travels, I completed a 4 day trek in Peru climbing to the Inca temple Machu Picchu, which involved trekking through the mountains in every type of weather! I also spent some time in the Himalayas whist I was in India visiting the home of the Dali Lama.
As part of my fundraising activities I’ve been mainly running! I’ve taken part in the Hastings and Jersey Half Marathons earlier this year and I am going to be running in the BUPA 10K Capital run at Hyde Park in July. Running for these distances is totally new to me – before this my average was about 10 minutes on the treadmill at my local gym. So this has been all new experiences for me. I am really looking forward to the challenge of climbing Mt. Kilimajarao, as well as getting the chance to visit Tanzania as that area of Afirca is one of the places I have really wanted to explore.
This is my first time raising money for charity at this level, I have made donations to cause before but never at this amount or been so closely involved.
You can sponsor Doug Platts here.
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1. kyle | September 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
i was wondering if you had any tips for getting in shape.
-Kyle-
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