The trek itself is 17 days commencing on 2nd October and will involve walking with a party of other climbers, Nepalese sherpers and yaks before reaching the camp at 18,192 ft on the 13th and then descending back to the Nepalese town Lukla by 19th. Along the way staying in a mixture of tents and mountain huts, and eating food carried by ourselves and the yaks.

We are both now 24 years old and started planning earlier this year, we both have some experience of mountains having traveled and climbed various [in comparison] small mountains around the world, but never anything on this scale. The Canterbury Oast trust is a cause very personal to myself, because my elder sister Sammy Causer is a resident with the trust in Aldington.

She has enjoyed horse riding, something which she first did through school at a 'riding for the disabled' scheme in west London. This continued whilst at college in Llandovery, Wales, and is now something which I believe is starting to be run by the Canterbury oast trust, having been with you for 2 years. I feel that to raise funds for development of this service will not only benefit Sammy but also many other current and future service users. It is an activity [also known as hippotherapy] which can instill great happiness but also has a substantial, research based underpinning for its effectiveness in the development and maintenance of trunk muscle tone and balance. This is something that I can fully appreciate as a physiotherapist myself, and is another reason why I feel that developing the service would be a notable asset to the Canterbury oast trust.