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Hi guys,

I wanted to share a short video that me and a mate made, of our first big walling experience.
This summer in, we climbed the Triple Direct route on El Cap. A little video below that hopefully shares a little bit about what its like to climb in Yosemite for the first time.

vimeo.com/109041136

We have a bunch of other videos on our blog, www.stefanandcherry.com

At the moment we're trying to plan a trip out to Namibia to climb around the Spitzkoppe/ Pontoks areas, and try some new routing around the Brandberg/ Erongo Mountains area.

We're still looking for Sponsorship/ Trip grants for that particular idea (we're both Students) so if anyone has a bit of advice in that department it'd be greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys.

In reply to AndrewJamesCherry:

Can't help, but tasty little video. Enjoyed it.

In reply to AndrewJamesCherry:

https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus

In reply to AndrewJamesCherry:

BMC not offer grants down south for that sort of thing? MCofS do this side of the border.

In reply to nathan79:

if your both students consider approaching your uni/college/student association for help. theres also an RGS grant available although i dont know what the criteria are for it

http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Learning+and+Leading/Undergraduates.htm

thanks

David

In reply to AndrewJamesCherry:

I'd be delighted if someone would pay for my holidays. As it's a rather vain hope I'll just have to do a bit more work.

In reply to AndrewJamesCherry:

Hi,

There are grants available for trips and you'd be surprised how few applications some of them get. In general there are more grants available for mountaineering type expeditions but some encompass rock climbing as well and many grants state that they want to support young climbers. There are a couple of lists that you can look through to see if your trip fits the grant criteria:

https://www.thebmc.co.uk/list-of-general-mountaineering-grants

Definitely look at the Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust for your trip

Also go through the Royal Geographical Society list to see if any apply to you:

RGS-IBG grants (many of which might not apply):
http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Grants/Expedition+fieldwork+and+independent+trav...

But off this there is a difficult to find link which has the comprehensive list called 'other grant giving organisations for expeditions and fieldwork'

https://delicious.com/rgs_ibg/grant_giving_organisations?sort=alpha&ord...

And many other ways to get funding for trips but this should get you started.

I have funded many of my own expeditions through grants and sponsorship and I now run workshops on expedition planning in remote places and getting funding for expeditions. My next workshop will be at the Fort William Mountain Festival if you're up North when the festival is on.

Good luck with the expedition,

Becky