Thanks for visiting my page! My Name is Ben Gilbert and I’m part of a group raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

 

Just before Christmas my Godfather Dave passed away following a long battle with a rare Cancer Neuroendocrine Tumours (NETs).

 

In June of last year Michelle a MacMillan Nurse was introduced to Dave and his wife Linda.  The support and advice Michelle gave them was invaluable.  She was a regular visitor and was only a phone call away for any help that they needed.  At the latter stages of Dave’s illness Michelle was able to arrange for expert care at home and it was here that Dave passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife Linda and family.

So to raise money in Dave’s memory for MacMillan Nurses and to give the much needed help and advice to any other family going through similar circumstances a team of five of us are planning to climb Mount Everest in a day!  Well, not quite.

 

Using an indoor climbing wall we are going to climb 8,848m in one day which is the height of Mount Everest. Even between five of us this will still be a lot of climbing!

 

Details of the event are as follows:

 

Date: 16th June 2012

Venue: Sunderland Wall (http://www.sunderlandwall.co.uk/)

Climbers: Ben Gilbert, Craig McMahon, Graeme Read, Scott Gibson and Steve Lynch.

 

If anyone feels like this might be worth a few quid, a Just Giving page has been set up here:

 

http://www.justgiving.com/Everest-Climb

 

Support at the wall on the day would also be greatly appreciated – we’ll be the knackered one’s doing laps in the corner!

 

Thank you for any support you can give.

The Team!