22.11.2008

Irish Land Rover G4 Challenge team



Twenty-four competitors will brave the elements at the end of month as they take part in the national selections for one of the world's most gruelling 4x4 driving and adventure events, the Land Rover G4 Challenge. Sixteen men and eight women are vying for four places in the International Selections, where
one man and one woman will be chosen to represent Ireland at the Challenge Finals in Mongolia.

The National Selections are taking place on Sunday 30th November and Monday 1st December at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury in the UK. The 24 men and women from around the country have been chosen from over 100
applicants to take one step closer to the four-week world adventure that is helping to generate more than €1.5m for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The group is being flown to Eastnor Castle near Birmingham in England where they will be put through two days of physical and aptitude challenges including extreme 4x4 off-roading, navigation, kayaking, abseiling and overnight camping among its many activities. The National Selections are a test of initiative, strategic thinking and team spirit as well as physical fitness, sporting skills and driving ability.

The Challenge is designed to test every aspect of the competitor's character, demanding the flexibility to work as a team. Following the national selection event two men and two women will be chosen to go through to the International selections in February. From that event the Irish team of one man and one woman will take part in the Global Challenge Finals, competing against 17 other nations.

The Finals of this ultimate global adventure will take place during 2009 in the most sparsely populated independent country on the planet - Mongolia. A blend of terrain offering arid steppes, mountains and the extreme climate of one of the world's largest deserts, the Gobi, makes Mongolia a natural fit with the Land Rover G4 Challenge.


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