Climbing Kilimanjaro

I have just donated €115 which is from the last 3 Friday cakes for charity at The Academy School. This brings the total of my fundraising page to €4137.
There are just 24 hours left before this page closes if anyone would like to make a last minute donation to the Mallorca Cancer Support Group. Thank you 🙏

Yesterday I added a very generous donation from the lovely Michael Noonan onto my fundraising page. It has taken the total there to €4022 !!!
When this is added to the direct donations, Facebook birthday donations and collecting boxes money , my total will be over €6000!!!!
I have raised this money by climbing 5,300m up Mt Kilimanjaro for the Cancer Support Group Mallorca to help them continue the fantastic work they do with people and their families affected by cancer.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone of you who has helped me to raise this amazing sum of money 🙏

This whole journey from signing up to the challenge in September 2018, to getting here in Tanzania today has been incredible and I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to do it.
The support from my two amazing hiking buddies Liz Wood and Anne Nielsen Greenapplecoaching, and all the other inspirational people in our group helped me through the intense roller coaster experience - wonderful exhilarating moments interspersed with running for toilet stops, vomiting on the mountain side and feeling lousy.
Brutal, incredibly tough, arduous, grueling, living hell were words our group used to describe our 6 day climb. All of us suffered from a stomach virus and the altitude which affected our sleep and we started our summit night with low energy levels.
I reached 5,300m at which point I was advised by the guides to descend, an agonizing decision for me but safety is more important than ambition. It was the right decision as going down was very then very difficult and I arrived back at base camp barely able to speak.
That was definitely both the best and toughest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Thank you all for your support.

Very exciting waiting to hear from Jan about her climb, looking forward to see some great shots when she gets back home!

It’s today !

This photo was taken on 12 December at the summit - it looks very cold !!! 😱

Just 10 days to go before my Kilimanjaro trip and today was our last Kili team training hike together!! And we finished on a high - The 3 Mils ( 1000m ) Rateta, Franquesa and L’Ofre on a spectacular sunny day.

The penultimate Friday charity cake , an orange sponge cake , raising funds for Cancer Support Group Mallorca. In 2 weeks time baking cakes will be the last thing on my mind !!! 😁

Up early this morning doing the finishing touches on some cakes ready for today’s special fundraising event. Class 1 children and parents at The Academy School are organizing a cake sale to add money to the Climbing Kilimanjaro Cancer Support Group Mallorca fund. Thank you all for participating 🙏❤️

1st December and just 25 more days to go until I set off on the most amazing and definitely memorable adventure and climb that goddamn mountain!
Please scroll down to find the link to donate to the Cancer Support Group Mallorca- all donations however small are so appreciated. Thank you 🙏

What a beautiful day for a hike!

Another amazing day hiking from Orient up onto the Alfabia ridge. This weekend has been fantastic training and we proved that there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing ! Although almost getting blown off the mountain probably counts as bad weather ! 😳
We also had the opportunity of trying out hand warmers which are absolutely amazing and so will definitely be in the Kilimanjaro backpack.