
Jonathan S
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Unfortunately, climbing Everest has become cliche. Everybody and their cousin is doing it. To get sponsorship, you'd need to have some sort of unique angle (oldest, youngest, one-legged, blind, artificial-heart recipient, climbing with gear from 1930's . . . something like that).
Nowadays, because the idea has become so mainstream, sponsorship on a novel project like that, especially one that can be linked to a "cause" (sickle-cell anemia, Ebola, taye-sachs disease, separation of conjoined twins, starving kids in Japan), is attainable by companies not normally associated with outdoor endeavors.
So my advice would be to make yourself stand out as much as possible from the crowds, have a cause, and then hit up every company you can think of, stressing how the publicity will benefit them. |