Well, I certainly can't, but Adrian managed it in just over 5 minutes - amazing!
Back in May we volunteered through the NZ Women's Business Network for a charity climb up The Gherkin which was organised to provide funds for the Christchurch earthquake relief. The event, 'Step Up 4 Christchurch', had the morning briefing meeting up the top of the building which was very cool - it's only open to the public once a year and it's really hard to get tickets for it, so it was a neat opportunity to be able to see it without lots of people and for a good cause as well!
We were stationed down the bottom, letting people up into the run and it was interesting to see all the various types of people who were participating. The guy who won did it in 4 minutes 56 seconds which was pretty incredible... Our turn was at the end of the day (immediately after eating a late lunch which definitely weighted me down I reckon!), and it was a great feeling to get to the top and celebrate. I did it in 9 minutes flat (mostly walking) which I didn't think was too bad. All the volunteers had a glass of fizz up the top, then tootled off home with the left over goodie bags - nice!
More photos are here.
Back in May we volunteered through the NZ Women's Business Network for a charity climb up The Gherkin which was organised to provide funds for the Christchurch earthquake relief. The event, 'Step Up 4 Christchurch', had the morning briefing meeting up the top of the building which was very cool - it's only open to the public once a year and it's really hard to get tickets for it, so it was a neat opportunity to be able to see it without lots of people and for a good cause as well!
We were stationed down the bottom, letting people up into the run and it was interesting to see all the various types of people who were participating. The guy who won did it in 4 minutes 56 seconds which was pretty incredible... Our turn was at the end of the day (immediately after eating a late lunch which definitely weighted me down I reckon!), and it was a great feeling to get to the top and celebrate. I did it in 9 minutes flat (mostly walking) which I didn't think was too bad. All the volunteers had a glass of fizz up the top, then tootled off home with the left over goodie bags - nice!
More photos are here.
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