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Mark Jennings-BatesBold text From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Mark Jennings-Bates) Jump to: navigation, search Mark Jennings-Bates Born 	Mark Jennings-Bates 23 April 1963 (age 49) United Kingdom Residence 	Okanagan, Canada Occupation 	Philanthropic Adventurer Motivational speaker Author Website markjenningsbates.com

Mark Jennings-Bates, (born Mark Jennings-Bates, 23 April 1963) is a Canadian Philanthropic Adventurer, writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his successful Guinness World Record expedition across Australia in 2012 where he led a team to set a new world record flying paramotors for 8,215kms. While Jennings-Bates was unable to complete the expedition as a pilot due to equipment logistics he led the team over a three month period in the harshest weather on record in Australia and set a new world record for charity. Contents

1 The adventure bug 2 Rally team 2.1 Prescribed Burn Rally Team 2.2 Rally4Life 3 Charity work 3.1 Africa 3.2 Guatemala 4 Other adventures 4.1 Ascent of Paldor, Nepal 4.2 Enduro Africa 4.3 Dakar training in Morocco 4.4 Physical Training 4.5 The Flight4Life 4.6 Planned adventures 5 Writing 5.1 A book titled "Getting to the Start" authored by Mark's wife, Jackie will be published at the end of 2012. 6 Charities 7 Other work 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links

The adventure bug

Jennings-Bates was born in Harborough Magna, UK on April 23, 1963 and grew up in the small village of Ryton-on-Dunsmore

As a student at Bishop Bright Grammar School in Leamington Spa, he was one of the last students to benefit from the local education authorities desire to teach children about outdoor pursuits. Although the funding for the courses was canceled after the first year, Jennings-Bates and a group of dedicated outdoor enthusiasts would unite with their teaches on many weekends throughout the year to do outdoor pursuits on a regular basis.

Spending as much time as possible on rock routes in Wales, the Lake District and Derbyshire, Jennings-Bates developed a passion for being outside.

College years were spent in Nottingham at Trent Polytechnic where he studied for an HND in Printing to support the family printing company.

During the early years with his fiance, Jackie, the couple became part of the The Yeti Club an historical association of climbers from across the UK who gathered in the weekend at the club's property, Waenhir, a small Crofters Cottage in the hills near Capel Curig, North Wales.

After living in the tiny village of Moreton Morrel for a few years, Jennings-Bates and his wife decided to move to the Canadian Rockies where they lived in Canmore, Alberta for 15 years.

Rally Team Prescribed Burn Rally Team

In Canada Jennings-Bates carried on his outdoor interests with active participation in Paragliding, mountaineering, ice climbing, telemark skiing, sailing, dog sledding and white water guiding. Raising two boys, Matt and Leagh eventually meant that he focused on parental responsibilities and abandoned many of the outdoor activities as he raised his children with his wife, Jackie.

In 2005, after moving to Peachland, British Columbia, Jennings-Bates decided to purchase a rally car and with Wynne Jenkins in the co-drivers seat and subsequently, he went on to win the Novice Championship and Open Class Championship in Western Canada in 2006, his first full season. Finishing as runner up in 2007, he repeated his success in the Open Class Championship again in 2008, this time with Jennifer Daly in the co-drivers seat. Prescribed Burn Rally Team was well established.

It was during this time that Jennings-Bates and his wife started talking about combining his passion for adventure with charity endeavours and together they formed Rally4Life.

Rally4Life was born out of a passion to enter the Dakar Rally, the worlds most famous rally event and combine that with a serious fund raising project.

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