The Stand Up On Everest Team
Event Organiser
Jeremy Banks - The Aid Fundraiser
The Aid Fundraiser hosts and promotes Laugh Till It Hurts for several national charities such as Save The Children, Macmillan Cancer Support, Mind and Crisis. Laugh Till It Hurts has built a reputation for a great evening and raising awareness for these charities working along big the biggest acts in the UK and Worldwide.
The last two years The Aid Fundraiser has become established in comedy event organising, planning and management of some of the biggest events in London and hosting regularly events at The Bloomsbury Theatre, The Comedy Store and Leicester Square Theatre. In 2015 the aid fundraiser is planning on hosting Laugh Till It Hurts regularly at Hammersmith Apollo.
Event Enquiries - jeremy@standuponeverest.co.uk
Website - http://www.theaidfundraiser.co.uk/
Expedition Leader - Dom Pickett Expeditions
Dom Pickett
Dom Pickett Expeditions are a highly experienced mountaineering and trekking operator, with many years experience of giving clients the experience of a lifetime through a well managed, safety conscious approach.
Dom prides himself on getting the group to reach their summit goals. Doms high success rate with groups compared with other operators is down to his own personal style and drive gained through his own personal achievements.
Website - www.dompickett.com
Operations - Altitude Events International
Richard ‘Kirt’ Kirtley
Altitude Events International serves to provide the support, guidance, experience and knowledge to help ambitious projects become a reality. Provided with a brief we deliver a working frame-work within which a project can be successfully managed – giving key touch points and deadlines, as well as using expertise and contacts to add value. The aim is always to be a resource that allows the event organisers to concentrate on maximising the potential of their project. We provide the reassurance that you will optimise your event leaving a positive experience for all involved. Kirt is a highly experienced event and expedition manager responsible for delivering events and experiences across the globe. With a natural flare for detailed planning and logistics he has a reputation for delivering high-end events and products. His key strengths lie in attention to detail, thorough documentation and manmanagement, coupled with a determination to deliver the very best products, and work towards safe, successful and risk free events.
Cricket On Everest
Kirt worked as one half of the team responsible for delivering the World Record breaking event that saw a full format game of Twenty:20 Cricket played at GorakShep at 5165m above sea level. Kirt looked after all operational matters for the expedition and saw the project through from concept to successful delivery. He was responsible for all in-country negotiations as well as over-seeing the day-to-day management of all expedition members throughout the build-up to the expedition as well as once in the Himalaya.
Operation Enquiries – operations@standuponeverest.co.uk
Peace Nepal Treks - www.peacenepaltreks.com
Trek Partner – Summit Nepal Trekking
Established in 1973 by Dutch ecologists, Summit Nepal Trekking has trekked over decades to reach its current position. The journey was not as easy as it may look from this juncture, there were challenges to execute complex projects, sustain in the business when country was in a political turmoil, look after the welfare and livelihood of the staff, despite all the odds Summit Nepal Trekking emerged victorious and kept serving to promote tourism in Nepal and to our valued clients. During the course of this remarkable journey, Summit Nepal Trekking got the opportunity to work together with high profile individuals, operators, organizations and media companies – Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition, the film “Caravan” of Eric Valli, BBC documentaries are few amongst many others.
Website - www.summit-trekking.com
Email - trekking@wlink.com.np
Television - One Tribe TV
Dale Templar
One Tribe TV is a TV production company based in Bath. OTTV specialises in making adventure, expedition and wildlife documentaries. The company, set up in 2011, is run by film-maker and journalist Dale Templar. She spent 22 years working for BBC Television, where she series produced the double BAFTAand Emmy award winning series “Human Planet”from the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. Dale has specialised in working abroad in every type of remote environment, travelling to over 60 countries and to all continents including Antarctica and the high Arctic. Dale also works as a travel writer, lecturer, public speaker and trainer. In 2011, Dale was presented with the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award from the Royal Geographical Society for Natural History Cinematography.
Dale has worked with many famous faces. In the last two years alone she’s filmed in extreme locations with Bear Grylls, Miranda Hart, Jonathan Ross and Chris Tarrant. In her new series for Channel Five, Dale heads back to Antarctica with new TV adventurer Richard Parks.
Website - www.onetribetv.co.uk
TV Enquiries – tv@standuponeverest.co.uk
PR - Emery PR
Amanda Emery
Amanda Emery has enjoyed working as a comedy PR for nearly twenty years, creating solid publicity campaigns and developing enduring and successful relationships with journalists and within the comedy industry generally. She has always worked alongside the best comedians - whether they're just breaking through, award winners or well established.
Email - amanda@emerypr.com
PR - Emery PR
Christy Causton
Christy is a comedy publicist at Emery PR and works for some of the most successful and well known comedians working in the UK right now. She works closely with comedians and journalists to publicise UK comedy tours in both the national and regional media. Every year Christy/Emery PR works at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, throughout August, on PR campaigns to help raise the profiles of up and coming comedians, as well as with those who are well established, including Edinburgh Comedy Award winners and nominees.
Email - christy@emerypr.com