want to trek 100km across the Sahara with a phone box?!
Former Cotswold Glasgow employee calling for trekkers...
Neil from Glasgow sent me an email from a former employee about an expedition that she is running for Scottish Epilepsy. Glasgow Cotswold are sponsoring her and we thought you might like to read about her plan to carry a replica of a phone box across 100km of the Sahara!
Story provided by Susan Sheridan
Susan Sheridan hopes that the skills she learned in the Glasgow store will help her survive the gruelling trek across one of the most inhospitable places on earth. Compeed and Platypus packs will be top of the shopping list as she treks 100km across the Sahara.
Susan now works with Scottish Epilepsy Initiative and is taking up to 30 participants across the Sahara Desert in Feb next year. Each participant will be trekking over 10 days with only the local Berber guides and camels for company.
They have the added challenge of taking a life size model of a telephone box with them to place on top of Chegaga, the highest sand dune in the desert, to make the ultimate long distance phone call.
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Michael

Q: What are you most looking forward to when you return home?
Posted by: ja murray | May 12, 2009 at 20:09p.s. I have been following the entire expedition!