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Gavin Bate

Guide and Expedition Leader

UK & Ireland

Background

Gavin started Adventure Alternative in 1991 during a long period of travelling, working in a wide variety of jobs, climbing mountains and organising expeditions. A solo trek across the Sahara Desert aged twenty one was a benchmark experience after which travel and adventurous exploits became a way of life.

Born in Kent, Gavin left his home at aged fifteen to attend secondary school in Western Australia. He then moved to Northern Ireland to study English Literature at University and has since lived in Kenya, Nepal, Northern Ireland and England. He lectures widely and is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University and carried the Olympic torch in 2012 for his charity work.

Gavin had a number of jobs including scrapping oil tankers in India, Pakistan and China, driving overland trucks in southern Africa which included aid trucks to refugee camps in Somalia and the Rwandan border, teaching in slum schools in Nairobi and working ad hoc for a variety of aid agencies. The work with schools was part of a Government initiative to re-unite street children with their parents and encourage them back to school. This experience over many years led to Gavin setting up his own charity called Moving Mountains.

While maintaining a small base in Northern Ireland, Gavin also lived in a small banda in the slums outside Nairobi and also spent time in the Sherpa villages of the Solu Khumbu.

In 2000 Gavin celebrated the Millennium by organising the Millennium Seven Summits Expedition, attempting to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents in one year, and in the process raising money for Comic Relief by wearing a red nose on each summit!

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