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Alex Staniforth

Alex Staniforth

Adversity Adventurer, Motivational Resilience Speaker, Author and Mental Health Activist

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everest

August 19, 2019

The endless pursuit of more – why are millennials burning out?

Being busy seems to be a badge of honour nowadays. It’s the automatic excuse for our daily routine of spinning so many plates, rushing around and

Category iconInspiration,  Inspiring,  Mental Health Tag iconachieving goals,  alex staniforth,  burnout,  everest,  goal setting,  mental health,  mental health speaker,  mental wellbeing,  millennial burnout,  millennials,  mind over mountains,  stress,  workplace

November 29, 2017

Back to Nepal and a Christmas Closer to Home

So, are you going back to Everest?! I should have known that posting photos of Lukla Airport would send the Twitter sphere into a frenzy. It’s like

Category iconAdventure,  Nepal Tag iconama dablam,  base camp,  charity,  everest,  fire,  kyangjuma,  nepal,  phase worldwide,  trekking

August 18, 2017

Expedition tips: the kit list for a 5,000 mile adventure challenge

Whether it's climbing Everest, rowing the Atlantic, or cycling around the world, we seem to have a fascination about the equipment chosen to get the

Category iconChallenges,  Climb The UK,  Endurance,  Inspiration,  Inspiring,  Viewranger,  Westgrove Group,  YHA Tag iconadventurer,  adversity,  alex staniforth,  charity,  cheshire,  climb the uk,  ClimbTheUK,  Counties,  everest,  highest points,  icefall,  mental health,  motivational speaker,  record,  wellbeing,  young minds,  young people

Inspirational Talks with Alex Staniforth

December 24, 2016

I have my challenges, but they don’t have me.

2016 draws to a close and “New Year, New Me” pledges clog my Facebook timeline as we reflect and set new goals: be it to lose weight, start a new job

Category iconChallenges,  Icefall,  Inspiration Tag iconadversity,  alex staniforth,  bear grylls,  cho oyu,  everest,  fundraising,  icefall,  inspiration,  mental health,  speaking,  speech problems,  stammer,  stammering,  stuttering,  walk4nepal,  young minds

Lakpa Thunda Sherpa

November 29, 2016

Lakpa Thundu Sherpa – A legend made and lost in the mountains

This isn't my usual blog post, and certainly not one I wanted to write either. Yesterday my friend Lakpa Thundu Sherpa died in an avalanche on Ama

Category iconCho Oyu 2016 Tag iconama dablam,  Avalanche,  cho oyu,  everest,  expedition,  lakpa thundu sherpa,  nepal,  sherpa

September 9, 2016

Cho Oyu Update: 3 steps backward

Today the team arrive at Advanced Base Camp (ABC) at 5,700m. Sadly I haven't joined them. After a six hour walk we got to an intermediate camp at

Category iconCho Oyu 2016 Tag icon360 expeditions,  8000m,  alex staniforth,  cho oyu,  climb,  everest,  expedition,  himalayas,  summit

August 27, 2016

Cho Oyu: The mountains are calling, and I must Cho…

Okay, so the title was a bit crap. But now I have your attention! This Sunday I leave for a seven-week expedition to Tibet, a part of the Himalayas

Category iconCho Oyu 2016 Tag icon360 expeditions,  alex staniforth,  challenge,  cho oyu,  everest,  expedition,  Mountains,  summit

August 8, 2016

A Jolly 24-hour Bike Ride from Chester to Dartmoor

This blog pretty much wrote itself whilst on the saddle. After all – I had 24 hours to think about it! It was one of my few bike challenges wherein

Category iconChallenges Tag icon24 hour,  adventure,  adversity,  alex staniforth,  bike,  british,  challenge,  cycle,  everest,  icefall,  ride,  training,  westgrove

Cycling Great Dun Fell

July 31, 2016

24 hours… on a bike!

Here's my latest wacky charity challenge - a solo/unsupported cycle time trial. This is not an official event... Just me in my usual style, jumping on

Category iconChallenges,  Endurance Tag icon24 hour,  alex staniforth,  challenges,  cycle,  cycling,  endurance,  everest,  training

Fellrunning Lake District

July 20, 2016

Training for Everest or an 8000m peak

With 16 talks in the last 32 days to over 900 people, one of the key questions has been: “What’s next?”. It’s Cho Oyu. The 6th highest peak in the

Category iconCho Oyu 2016,  Everest 2015,  Training Tag icon8000m,  alex staniforth,  author,  bear grylls,  bike,  cheshire,  cho oyu,  cycling,  everest,  everesting,  fitness,  Health,  himalayas,  icefall,  mountaineering,  movie,  training

Cho Oyu Advanced Base Camp

June 10, 2016

Cho Oyu 2016 – Down, but not out!

So... what's next? Since Everest last year I've been asked this continually. If you've read my book you probably have a better idea. But in the

Category iconCho Oyu 2016 Tag iconadversity,  alex staniforth,  bear grylls,  charity,  cheshire,  cho oyu,  climbing,  everest,  himalayas,  icefall,  tibet,  westgrove

May 12, 2016

What were you doing this last time year?

I was returning from my second attempt to climb Everest. The Nepal earthquake put a stop to that. Three guys on my team didn't come home after an

Category iconInspiration Tag iconalex staniforth,  Avalanche,  cheshire,  climbing,  earthquake,  everest,  fundraising,  hull,  icefall,  keswick,  mountaineering,  nepal,  westgrove

May 2, 2016

Icefall – the book tour!

Pleased to announce the first dates of my book signing and speaking tour across the UK over the coming months. More details will follow - but this is

Category iconIcefall Tag iconalex staniforth,  author,  Avalanche,  bear grylls,  blog,  book,  cheshire,  climbing,  everest,  icefall,  nepal,  release

April 27, 2016

Walk4Nepal – 12 Months On

Last Summer I organised a fundraising 'Walk for Nepal' in my local area. We had six people and raised £70. Every little helps, especially

Category iconAdventure,  Inspiration Tag icon12monthson,  alex staniforth,  anniversary,  Avalanche,  charity,  earthquake,  everest,  nepal,  phase,  phase worldwide,  snowdon,  snowdonia,  walk4nepal

December 31, 2015

Dealing with the festive blues

So it's the time of year when I'm as cheerful as a Turkey at Christmas, we're swamped with cheesy inspirational quotes for the year ahead, when health

Category iconInspiration Tag icon2016,  alex staniforth,  Avalanche,  blog,  book,  cheshire,  coventry house,  depression,  earthquake,  everest,  icefall,  mental health,  new year,  resolutions,  SAD,  seasonal affectivity disorder

November 28, 2015

The University of Life

Climbing Mount Everest is widely known as a pinnacle of achievement and mental tenacity in itself, but the 'Everest' ideology applies everywhere in

Category iconInspiration Tag iconalex staniforth,  cheshire,  depression,  epic7,  everest,  leadership,  mental health,  resilience,  speaking,  university

August 12, 2015

Everesting – Summiting in the Saddle

My tale of cycling the vertical height of Mount Everest (29,035ft) within 24 hours. Read on... So as you're likely aware my last two attempts to

Category iconChallenges,  Cycling Tag iconactive cheshire,  alex staniforth,  bike,  challenge,  cycling,  dufton,  earthquake,  everest,  everesting,  fundraising,  great dun fell,  knock,  mick walker,  nepal,  pennines,  ultra,  vegan cyclist,  westgrove group

Everest Avalanche

May 1, 2015

Mount Everest 2015 Earthquake: What really happened

This is my latest and final blog from my Everest 2015 expedition. This season is now officially over, but the carnage for the people of Nepal is far

Category iconEverest 2015 Tag icon2015,  alex staniforth,  Avalanche,  disaster,  donate,  earthquake,  everest,  Himalayan Trust,  HTUK

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Alex Staniforth - Adventurer
Back where it all began. Running with my old man! Back where it all began. Running with my old man!

Last March I got my Parkrun PB at Keswick and this weekend got my slowest at Fell Foot.

The plan was to keep my heart rate under 145bpm to avoid another crash of fatigue, which meant walking most of the hills. It took the discipline of Yoda not to set off chasing people like the good old days, especially when my dad overtook me in the first km. 

I hated exercise as a kid. On holiday in France my stepmum bribed me with €2 to run a mile with him. That was a lot of money back then... I hated every minute but dad inspired me to enter a 10km race for charity, and the rest is history. Dad came to watch every race since, as I happily claimed the family record at every distance from 5km to marathon, whilst he retired to become a Parkrun tourist. 

Never thought he'd beat me again, but never forget where you started.
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#LongCovid #TheComeback #MatchingJackets #parkrun #loveparkrun #fellfootpark
#LakeDistrict #lakedistrictuk #runninginspiration #Fellfoot #windermere #parkruntourist #fatherson
Much-needed adventure inspiration from @mrmarkbeau Much-needed adventure inspiration from @mrmarkbeaumont on his Faster tour at Rheged last weekend. 

Mark is the fastest person to cycle around the world in 80 days (that's 240 miles a day... for perspective) amongst many other records. He's been a huge personal inspiration and kindly endorsed my 2nd book.

So much resonated, but a few favourite takeaways: 

- Trust the process, the bigger picture will always take care of itself. 

- Remove the faff. His team had to ensure he was on the bike by 4am, not 4:05am. That would have added an entire day to his record.

- Mark had 40 people working on his world record. He knew that if he failed, the whole team failed. 

- Good times won't last forever, but that means the bad ones won't either... 

Thanks Mark. Grab his books, talks and films if you're needing some adventure inspiration! 

#faster #worldcycle #ultracycling #markbeaumont #inspiration #80days #mindset #cyclingheroes #rheged #ultracyclist 
@speakersfromtheedge
214/214 Wainwrights complete! Somehow it's taken 214/214 Wainwrights complete! 

Somehow it's taken 12 years, 8 months and 25 days since my first summit, Souther Fell, aged 14 (swipe for evidence). For those who don't know, the Wainwrights are a list of 214 summits created by legendary writer Alfred Wainwright. There was no better hill to finish than the aptly named 'Great Cockup', with a great crowd of friends.

The record is 5 days 12 hrs 14 mins... If only we hadn't stopped for a sandwich 😂 

Meanwhile @thehodfather666 is currently climbing all 214 with a 4 stone hod of house bricks, to raise money for @mindomountains.

However fast you go, there's something strangely addictive about this collection of fells. It's been a fun project to explore the Lakes and maybe one day I'll start again to see how fast I can get around... 

📸@danobeaumont

#GreatCockup #Wainwrights #LakeDistrict #Hillwalking  #GetOutside #Lakes #peakbagging #wainwrightswalks
A big welcome to the first CEO of @mindomountains, A big welcome to the first CEO of @mindomountains, Ian Sansbury! 

When Chris and I founded the charity in 2020 we never imagined how big it would become. From the flagship event with @adventureuncovered to delivering 27 events last year, supporting 300+ people with their mental health, including the NHS, Police and Ambulance Service.

Leadership is about creating a vision, and building a great team to achieve it - like our wonderful trustees, team and 50+ freelance staff who continually go above and beyond. 

It’s also knowing your strengths and weaknesses, when ironically it's compromised my own mental health sometimes too. As the charity grows I'm not the right person to take it where it needs to be, so it can reach everyone who needs our help.

Feeling like a proud parent sending their kids off to start school, with less crying, but I'm super excited to see the charity grow and support even more people with Ian’s expertise. 

I’ll remain heavily involved as a trustee (and Chief Interference Officer) to support the team, tell the story and raise money through daft adventures… 

Thanks to everyone who's been part of the first chapter. Onwards!

#NewChapter #MyBaby  #MentalHealthCharity #MindOverMountains
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