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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">A Keswick family has organised a ‘10 in 10 Challenge’ to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Next month, hundreds of people from across Britain will take to the fells to walk 17 miles over 10 peaks in 10 hours to raise money for research into this debilitating disease.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">And the event has just had a timely boost - during national MS Week - that the leading outdoor brand, Berghaus, will be its sponsor after a request from the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Yvonne Booth</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, mother of three lovely little boys and wife of local primary school teacher Duncan, decided to organise the ‘10 in 10 Challenge’ after her husband was diagnosed with MS in June 2010.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Last summer saw the inaugural event above Buttermere in which 120 participants raised an outstanding £24,000. As the walkers took to the skyline, Duncan took to the water and swam across ten lakes. His brother Simon Booth, a one-time British fell running champion, did himself proud too by completing the challenge as a run in two and a half hours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This year’s event takes place on</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Saturday 23rd June 2012 when 150 walkers will leave the Swinside Inn, in the Newlands Valley, at 6.30am and head up the first peak - Causey Pike followed by Sail, Crag Hill, Wandope, Whiteless Pike, High Snockrigg, Robinson, Dale Head, High Spy and Maiden Moor.<br><br>For more information or to enter visit <a title="10 in 10 MS Charity Challenge" href="http://www.acs-events.co.uk/challeng/10-in-10/">http://www.acs-events.co.uk/challeng/10-in-10/</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Yvonne Booth</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> said: ”The ten peak challenge, to be completed in ten hours, is a charity event to raise money for the MS Society to use for research into Multiple Sclerosis. It’s not a competition, just a challenge, and it is encouraging to see so many people in training for this year’s event. I hope one day the MS Society find a cure for this nasty, debilitating and unpredictable disease. We’re so grateful to Sir Chris Bonington, who is fully supporting the event and kindly asked Berghaus to sponsor it.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">So please dig deep and donate now.</span></p>
<p>Read Duncans personal <a title="10 in 10 blog" href="http://dunc10in10.blogspot.co.uk/">10 in 10 challenge blog</a>, which we also aim to feature guest blogs from our fund raisers featuring their training exploits!</p>