Everyone knows someone who has suffered from or been affected by cancer.

This is my small part in the effort in the fight to eradicate it once and for all. To raise money by walking the Pennine Way.

Most blokes my age (41), suffer a mid life crisis about now, and go and buy something fast on 2 or 4 wheels. Ive bought a ruck sack and new boots and intend to try and do the ultimate pub crawl (about 12 I think). Anyone who knows me, will read this and be convinced im mad attempting it.

Im going to do it over Easter. Between 15th March and 30th March.

The Pennine Way National Trail, 268 miles (429km) of trail chasing the Pennine Mountain tops along the rugged backbone of England, from the Peak District through the Yorkshire Dales and over Hadrian's Wall to the Cheviots. Amongst the finest upland walking in England, it's a walk that everyone should do once in a lifetime. Or so the book says.

A survey by the National Trails agency reported that a walker covering the entire length of the trail is obliged to navigate 287 gates, 249 timber stiles, 183 stone stiles and 204 bridges. 319 kilometres (198 mi) of the route is on public footpaths, 112 kilometres (70 mi) on public bridleways and 32 kilometres (20 mi) on other public highways. The walker is aided by the provision of 458 waymarks.

The route of the Pennine Way passes close to or through the following places (mountains and moors are marked in italics, towns and villages in normal type):

• Edale
• Kinder Scout
• Bleaklow
• Black Hill
• Crowden
• Wessenden valley
• Saddleworth Moor
• Standedge
• Littleborough
• Stoodley Pike
• Todmorden (for the Caldervale line)
• Hebden Bridge (for the Caldervale line)
• Wadsworth Moor
• Keighley Moor
• Elslack Moor
• Lothersdale
• Gargrave
• Airton
• Malham
• Fountains Fell
• Pen-y-ghent
• Horton in Ribblesdale (on the Settle-Carlisle Railway)
• Dodd Fell Hill
• Hawes (for the Wensleydale Railway)
• Great Shunner Fell
• Kisdon
• Kisdon Force
• Keld
• Tan Hill
• Crosses the A66
• Middleton-in-Teesdale and the Tees valley
• High Cup
• Dufton
• Great Dun Fell
• Cross Fell
• Alston
• Greenhead
• Hadrian's Wall (near the B6318)
• Shitlington Crags
• Bellingham
• Windy Gyle
• The Cheviot
• Kirk Yetholm

These details were taken from wikipedia, the best online resource I have ever seen. Please click this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennine_Way to see it in its original context.

The official website, which has an excellent map of the route, for the pennine way, can be found at http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/PennineWay/index.asp?PageId=1

Stats:
Average number of days to complete: 16 (15 days is my aim)
Fastest time: 2 and half days (Honestly thats what the national trail site says
Highest point: Cross Fell 2947ft (893m)
Start point: The Nags Head pub in Edale
Finish point: The Border Inn, Kirk Yetholm
Landscape: A grand traverse up the backbone of England. 17% of the trail is within the Peak District National Park, 20% in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and 24% within the Northumberland National Park. (Total 61% designated).
Highlights: Kinder Scout, Stoodley Pike, Top Withins, Malham Cove, Pen-y-ghent, Tan Hill, High Force, Cauldron Snout, High Cup Nick, Cross Fell, Hadrians Wall and the Cheviot.

I would like to dedicate this page to my uncle Eli. Sadly no longer with us, but he would be proud. He never knew it but he sowed the seeds for this walk about 30 years ago. Thanks Eli, its for you.

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. Please dig deep and sponsor me online. Dont be tight. 1p a mile is nothing and just think of the wet feet, blisters and 2 weeks without cable, broadband and a warm bed. How about 5p a mile or more?

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Cancer Research UK will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

So please sponsor me now and keep following my mobile sms blog which will be continually updated on http://www.glimt.com/blog/andrew
Many thanks for your support.

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Done it. Back home. Just for the record, the maximum elevation achieved was 2983 ft. Total ascent was 47341 ft. Mileage for the trip was 302 miles. The average moving speed was 2.3mph

Thanks to everyone for all your support. Cheers.