Xtreme Archive: Mountaineering Moustache Madness
Its 24 April 2013 and Barbie's Dreamhome Experience has almost been completed in Berlin. It would open in May the same year and would be filled with everything a modern woman could need including a kitchen, catwalk and karaoke stage.
In the music world Chrissy Amphlett, lead singer of the Australian rock band Divinyls who had an international hit in the early 1990s with the single "I Touch Myself," passed away after a battle against breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
Elsewhere, a survey carried out by Sainsbury's showed that one fifth of mothers spent £200 less on their second child, with over half no longer weighing their child daily, two fifths taking care not to over-sterilise utensils and 15 per cent give up ironing muslin squares.
Meanwhile on Everest one month in, some of the team were embracing big beards whilst others were reaching for trimmers and creating some glorious tributes to 80s fashion. It seemed some of the male members of the team fancied themselves as a bit of a Nicky Clarke as the CPET lab was transformed into a salon.
Mountaineering Moustache Madness
Originally blogged by Kay Mitchell
Cabin fever has well and truly set in at Everest Base Camp. The team have turned to desperate measures to find entertainment. Our latest fad, ridiculous facial hair!
Instigated by CPET lead Phil The Inspector Hennis, one by one the male contingent of Base Camp have decided to fashion their once rugged mountaineering beards into what can only be described as unique, overwhelming, eye-catching facial style statements. Our cardiopulmonary exercise laboratory has been transformed into a facial grooming salon, complete with shaving mirror, beard trimmer and badger brushes.
The facial fashions range from James The Colour Sergeant Horscroft's Zulu style to Adam The Supertramp Sheperdigian's unkempt, loosely styled beard. Andre The Parisian Artist Vercueil continues to support a gallic goatee, whilst our illustrious leader Dan The Shoreditch Stubble Martin prefers the shorter bristle, right in time for the imminent arrival of his girlfriend Georgina.
Ori El Diablo Couppis brings a taste of the Mediterranean to Nepal, whilst Tom The Falkland's Veteran revives a military tradition from the 80's. Maintaining innocence and boyish charm (without yet having a shave) Tom The Impending Puberty Adams remains the only member of the Base Camp team recognisable to trekkers from sea level testing.
With still one more month to go, beard lengths at Heathrow Airport may leave relatives bristling. You have been warned!
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