Many years ago, I went to the headquarters of the "New Dawn" as it was called after receiving a letter regarding a horrible situation at Stormrage Mountain. I immediately packed my bags and arrived, only to find that I really needed fully evolved pokemon. Whoops. In any case, Lance explained the situation to me and I knew I needed to get moving.
Two months later, I returned to the scene, and the storms had gotten only worse. Some trainers had attempted it already, but were generally getting beaten and sent back to base. (Although I heard in another dimension it had subsided :P). I was training my Snorlax at the time, and he wasn't ready yet, so I looked at the job bulletin board. I saw an ad for Its A Random's trek to an undiscovered part of Cliffs of Thunder, and after consulting my pokemon, accepted the job proposal.
However, Claire saw me post this acceptance and asked me some questions so that I wasn't committing suicide by going up there. I soon learned that most of my pokemon would get massacred up there. However, since there was a lack of bodyguards to protect people, my Snorlax was already ready by this time, so I posted my own challenge, to go up to Wildfire Plateau.