Trekking for charity in Mongolia

Twelve challengers have just returned to the UK after completing the BHS Mongolia Riding Challenge 2011.

This was the first Challenge ride off the beaten track in the Töv region in central Mongolia with the riders raising £6,000 in aid of BHS Welfare.

The ride went through Mongolia’s true wilderness, travelling across grassland steppe, sand dunes and rock formations with the group’s equipment travelling by camel carts. However it was not all hard riding, as challengers saw Mongolian culture at the Nadaam Festival with archery, wrestling and horseracing during a national holiday in Mongolia. This event has been around since the time of Chinggis Kahn Khan

Trish Mulholland from Lurgan, County Armagh said: “It was a totally amazing trip. I loved every second of it, even through the wind, rain, thunder and lightning!” Anna Woodall from Sandy, Bedfordshire added: “The trip really did exceed my expectations and I would recommend it to anyone”.

The British Horse Society Riding Challenges were first launched in 2000 to help fund it’s welfare work and to provide education and advice in the campaign to prevent cases of neglect.

The BHS Mongolia Riding Challenge will take place again in 2013 and there are still places on next year’s other challenge rides across the globe – contact the BHS for an experience not to be missed and never to be forgotten.

This year’s Mongolia challengers were: Alison Richardson, Anna Woodall, Bridie Stanford-Bennett, Debbie Morgan, Gill Nobbs, Gillian Young, Gordon Williams, Kim Lock, Nicky Hall, Trish Mulholland, Sue Hawking and Sue Judd.

For more information on BHS Challenge Rides, visit www.bhs.org.uk or contact Wendy Minor on 02476 840572.

For further press information and pictures, please contact our Press Officer: Alison Coleman, The British Horse Society, 02476 840463 or a.coleman@bhs.org.uk 

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