Interested in joining our team, The TS Team, and going on an Epic journey?
For more information contact Lisa at troysnyman@gmail.com
We’ll be racing and mountaineering to greater heights, both in South Africa and internationally.
Our team’s goal is to create, define and build a winning team culture to compete in both local and International events in both racing and mountaineering – where there is a race track, there is a mountain waiting to be summited.
We encourage and motivate persons of all ages to clarify goals and objectives; to further their skills; to dream big and achieve their dreams. Join us on the iconic and epic journeys of this exciting global project.
Experience, physical & mental fitness and management, of our bodies and minds are essential for success in these extreme environments.
Our team leaders are on top of their game, Globally recognized and without doubt the most professional in their field :
Meet the Main Members of our TS Team:
(click on a name to view biography)
Shaen Adey - Mountaineer Chief Team Leader (Cape Town, South Africa)
Shaen Adey is a diverse stills and drone photographer with more than 40 coffee table and guide books (locally and internationally) mainly focussing on hiking trails, travel and adventure tucked under her belt. She also regularly contributes articles and photographs to various outdoor magazines.
Living in Cape Town she’s lucky to call Table Mountain her playground. Her grandfather was an intrepid mountaineer and conservationist who loved the Drakensberg and inspired her as a kid to venture out. His invaluable advice was always, “there’s no such thing as a shortcut on a mountain”, his only rule . . . “be back before dark”. When struggling he’d simply say: “How do you spell can’t’? ‘Try!” Shaen lives by her own motto: “Dare to dream – and don’t look backwards, that’s not where you’re going”.
SIGNIFICANT MOUNTAINEERING EXPERIENCES
Matterhorn and Breithorn – Zermatt, Switzerland
Piz Bernina via the Biancograt, Piz Palu, Piz Zupo – Bernina Alps, Switzerland
Mount Aspiring – New Zealand
Dent du Géant, Mont Blanc Massif – Italy
Mont Blanc du Tacul – France
Aiguille du Midi – France
Aiguille d’Entrèves traverse – France
Arêtes des Cosmiques – France
Vallée Blanche Traverse – France
Brenta Dolomites – Italy
Marmolada, Dolomites – Italy
Monte Rosa – Italy
Triglav – Slovenia
Grossglockner, Grossvenediger and Wildspitze – Austria
Petit Mont Blanc, Aiguille de Tre la Tete – Italy
White Water Wall, Freycinet Peninsula – Tasmania, Australia
Ancient Art, Fisher Towers, Moab – USA
Castleton Tower, Moab – USA
South Six Shooter Peak and North Six Shooter Peak, Indian Creek – USA
Wolf’s Head and North East Face on Pingora, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming – USA
Snake Dike on Half Dome, Royal Arches, East Buttress of El Capitan, Yosemite – USA
North Face of Batian, Mount Kenya – Kenya
Spitzkoppe and Pontoks – Namibia
Mount Toubkal – Morocco
Wolfberg Cracks, Cederberg – South Africa
Table Mountain, Cape Town – South Africa
Waterval Boven – South Africa
Sentinel Angus La
EXTREME RACES
Expedition Africa Kinetic Events, 500km adventure race (6th position) – South Africa
Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon 250km (2nd woman) – South Africa
St Helena Marathon (1st woman) – St Helena Island
Half Ironman, Port Elizabeth – South Africa
Grand Raid de la Réunion, 162km ultra Marathon – Réunion Island
Southern Storm Duathlon, Garden Route – South Africa
Himalayan 100 Mile Race – India
OTHER ADVENTURES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Karate Black Belt (1st dan Kyokushin)
Crossed the Simpson desert and Red Centre solo – Australia
Advanced and Nitrox diver (paid)
ADDITIONAL INTERESTS
Wildlife and underwater photography, Woodt
Fiona McIntosh - Mountaineering Team Leader (Cape Town, South Africa)
Fiona McIntosh is a Cambridge educated, former geography teacher and four-time Olympic athlete for Great Britain in fencing (finalist in 1992). She lives in Cape Town where she works as a freelance photojournalist for a range of magazines and book publishers. Her hobbies include hiking, climbing, diving, white water kayaking, snow skiing and adventure travel – interests that have taken her to the North and South Poles, down raging rivers, into cave systems and deep ocean and up numerous high mountain peaks all over the world.
When she’s at home she’s usually to be found hanging by her fingertips off Table Mountain, braving the Cape’s freezing waters or its fabulous food and fine wines.
She has contributed features on mountaineering, trekking, rock climbing, scuba diving and other adventures to various international magazine titles and guide books, and is the author of numerous adventure books including Table Mountain Activity Guide, Slackpacking, A Guide to South Africa’s Top Leisure Trails, Dive Sites of South Africa & Mozambique, Road Tripping Namibia, Seven Days in Mauritius, Picturesque Mozambique, Top 12 Hiking Trails of the Western Cape and African Adventure Atlas.
Mountaineering expeditions include:
ASIA: Ama Dablam; Spantik, Ararat
EUROPE: Mont Blanc, Matterhorn; Jungfrau, Monch, Piz Bernina, Monta Rosa, Gunnbjornsfjeld; Hvannadalsnukur; Triglav; Zugspitze; Olympus, Marmolada, Haute Route (both on foot and on skis).
Rock climbs include: Old Man of Hoy, Stetind via South Pillar, Cuillin Ridge traverse, Napes Needle.
NORTH AMERICA: Fairweather; Blackburn; Rainier; Orizaba, Baffin Island
Rock climbs include various routes in Yosemite, Tuolumne, Indian Creek, Moab, Joshua Tree, Red Rocks, Wind River Mountains, Whitney East Face and Grand Teton.
SOUTH AMERICA: Aconcagua; Chimborazo; Cotopaxi; Alpamayo
AFRICA: Kilimanjaro; Batian (Mt Kenya); Margherita (Rwenzori); Meru, Ras Dashen, Karisimbi, Elgon, Mt Cameroon, Jebel Toubkal, Drakensberg Grand Traverse;
Rock climbs include: Spitzkop, Drakensberg (including Devil’s Tooth, Bell, Mponjwane, Monk’s Cowl, Sentinel), Wolfberg, Tafelberg, Table Mountain.
AUSTRALASIA: Aspiring, Wilhelm; Giluwe, Kosciuszko
ANTARCTICA: Vinson
Other expeditions include: North and South Poles on skis, Marathon des Sables, Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Ultra Marathon, Himalayan 100 Mile Stage Trail Race, Expedition Africa Adventure Race, Camino de Santiago, Danube from Source to Sea by bike and Zambezi and Nile in a kayak. She’s also scared herself silly running the bulls in Pamplona.
Ralph Odendaal - Race Karting Team (South Africa)
Punjabi Race Engines (visit website)
Francesco Costa - Race Karting Team (Italy, Europe)
Francesco Costa, based in the North of Italy, is known as a professional experienced dynamic, Karting Racing Driver & Coach.
He graduated in MOTORSPORT MANAGEMENT at Luiss Business School University of Rome,
and normally we can say he spends his time on track, racing some beasts or coaching some future famous Motorsport enthusiasts. He races in Karting: Rotax, Rok, KZ engines and GT cars, as a driver of EBIMOTORS, one of the most popular Porsche GT teams in Italy.
Francesco teaches specific technics of driving, improving dry and wet skills of his drivers. He teaches racing strategy during a weekend and he is able to catch 120% of his drivers’ ability on a one-on-one basis.
Working on and off the track, building and motivating his clients’ emotional and phycological confidence and trust.
As team leader, along with his Racing Team, he has the amazing ability to work around each individual’s needs.
As the owner of MKC Motorsport winning team, Francesco works with young and senior drivers in national and International races, offering technical, coaching and strategy support with SODI, BIREL ART and OTK equipment.
Francesco is also the owner of K – MGMNT, a consulting society that follows drivers from the beginning of their career in Kart racing up to their future in cars, single seat or GT.
“When my young drivers deliver the passion, I double the speed, and this combination makes a winning team.”
Troy Snyman - Avid Enthusiast in both Racing & Mountaineering: (Junior - KZN, South Africa)
Read Troy’s biography on the “About Troy” page here
