Having left school in June 2006 Rhys intended to have a gap year playing rugby around the world but a knee injury prevented this from occurring. Monty Mythen, a member of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest team invited Rhys to be part of the expedition. Rhys now works as part of the Logistics team.

After Rhys leaves Nepal he is going to travel the east coast of Australia where he is looking forward to learning scuba dive and trying to improve his surfing and sailing.

In September Rhys is going to read Civil Engineering at Swansea University. It will allow him to continue enjoying his main hobbies rugby, surfing and sailing.