Due to permit issues and limited team places we have had the nightmare situation of having to ask Will to offer up his place on the Team as Logistics manager. This has been very hard. He is a great friend to us all and has been a huge part of putting this attempt together, but we have one space available and it has become more & more apparent as we get closer & closer that we must have a Himalayan experienced, trained paraglider & weather expert actually with us at base camp, rather than just on a radio or satellite phone somewhere. Terry Stubbs will be that man for us, and in order for us to take Terry from Adventure Extreme, Will has offered to step down. It has been a very difficult one this but for our safety it is a vital call.

Terry has taken us through our SIV radical paragliding canopy handling in the Alps and once out in the Himalayas we will need his expertise and weather help out there to combine with the info we are getting live from climbers on Everest. Terry can interpret this into paragliding ‘speak’, he is one of the most experienced Himalayan paraglider pilots in the world and is the best guy to help us get the decision right about when to fly our paramotors so high.

Losing Will is a blow – he is a great friend and really has been instrumental in putting many of the documents for this attempt together behind the scenes. But he is right with us in wanting us to have the right expertise when it matters out there and with limited permit-allowed personnel we have had to take this hard decision.