Tenax sponsors Pilgrim Bandits’ trek to Everest Base Camp

Last year we sponsored the charity, Pilgrim Bandits, in a record-breaking fundraising challenge – an epic trek across the Himalayan Mountains to Everest Base Camp.

Established in 2007 with the help of members of the Special Forces, Pilgrim Bandits organises adventure expeditions, social events and health and wellbeing funding for military and blue light veterans. In the spirit of its mantra ‘always a little further’, each expedition is physically and mentally challenging, helping participants build confidence in their individual abilities and cultivating a feeling of team camaraderie as they undertake an epic challenge together.

The charity raises funds for its expeditions and grants to provide specialist equipment and wheelchairs for injured ex-military and emergency services personnel. It also provides training courses to help veterans into employment and provides health and wellbeing services, including therapies and treatments to improve physical and mental wellbeing.

For this challenge, the group of Everest Base Camp trekkers comprised able-bodied, disabled, and injured military veterans and blue light service personnel, including single and double amputees, as well as a member suffering from MND. This was an amazing feat of endurance and a record-breaking challenge, as the group became the largest group of disabled people ever to reach Base Camp.

And if that wasn’t impressive enough, one of the Pilgrim’s members, Hari Budha Magar, who is a former Gurkha, went one further and summited Everest – breaking another world record by becoming the first double above-the-knee amputee to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.

Tenax’s Managing Director, Andy Hughes, said: “We were pleased to support this impressive challenge. The charity does amazing work with injured military servicemen and women and seeing what those who took part in the expedition have achieved is incredibly inspiring.”

Find out more about Pilgrim Bandits.