22/03/2026
🤍After months & of thinking, going back and forth, and many sleepless nights, I’ve made what is honestly one of the hardest decisions of my life.
🤍After 9 wonderful years, I’ve decided it’s time for me to step away from ice cream business and stop trading as Everest Ices to pursue a new business opportunity.
🤍This van was never just a job to me. It was a huge part of my life. It was my life!
So many of you weren’t just customers you became familiar faces, friendly chats at the window, kids I watched grow up over the years, families who welcomed me into their streets week after week. The smiles, the laughter, the excitement when the music played… those are memories I will carry with me forever. We even survived a global pandemic! 😷
🤍But losing both my parents in such a shocking a short period of time, & them both being the biggest cheerleaders of Everest ices has changed me in ways I never expected. It changed something in my heart, my outlook on life, and the path I see for myself in healing & moving forward. Since losing them, something inside me died with them, and I realised that my heart just isn’t in the trade the way it once was, like that was my old identity (people who sadly know grief will relate)
And I would rather go out at the top of my game then be pushed out the trade because I haven’t got the fight in me..
🤍 This decision hasn’t been easy.
I know my parents would be devastated on my decision
(And I hate that)! I’ve wrestled with it for ages because this van means so much to me. I love what I did. I loved being part of your summers, your family moments, and the little traditions that came with hearing the van coming down the street.
🤍 My extreme hard work and dedication also aloud me 15 months of time off from work looking after my parents in there final moments… which money couldn’t ever buy.
The memories made in that time are priceless to me I cherish that time.
And I was so honoured to get the opportunity to do that for my parents, altho it was so painful at times, & the hardest thing I’ve ever done, I enjoyed every second of caring for them!
The vans success gave me that opportunity and to me that’s me ending it on an emotional yet positive high!
🤍But sometimes life changes you, things happen unexpectedly and you have to listen to your heart — even when it hurts (and it does)
❤️🩹 Michael the Mercedes has been **SOLD** 😭😢
🤍To every single person who bought an ice cream, waved from their front door, ran down the street when they heard the music, or simply stopped for a chat , laughed with me, cried with me, help me rescue lost animals, danced in streets with… thank you. You all helped make these nine years something incredibly special, and I will never ever forget it.
And I know I changed the trade in so many ways and brought it into the new era of Icecream van wars 😂
🤍When you next hear an ice cream van coming down the street it won’t be me at the wheel anymore — but a big big part of my heart and my beautiful Mum & Dads will always be in that music. 🎶
❤️ And finally…. Thankyou Mum & Dad for encouraging me from day 1 believing in me, being my biggest supporter ever!
Watching me build a life a future and a dream and our name become more than just a surname but something iconic & truly magical
I couldn’t have done it without you, but it’s bitter sweet as I just can’t do it now also with out you, you were Everest ices to me 🌻
Thankyou everyone from the bottom of my heart.
Gemma, AKA - The Icecream lady 🍦
