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Damian de Scarfo, Alasdair Lightbody, Sebastian de Scarfo & Howard McCulloch-Wicks are taking on Europe in an epic cycle from Leamington to Milan, Italy.

The trip will take ten days of grueling pedaling, averaging 100 miles per day, including the mental punishment of climbing over the Alps, peaking at 6900ft. Thats over 1000 miles in 10 days. The route passes though England, Northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switerland & finally rolling into Italy.

Some of the days will be following some pro cycling routes as featured in the 'Tour De Swiss' & 'Giro D'Italia'  this is going to be no easy task!

We have decided to under take this punishing feat of mental and physical endurance in memory of Alasdair's Cousin Nic Crouch who died in a suicide car bomb blast in Iraq.

Nic Crouch graduated at Sandhurst in 2000 and served with the Paras including a tour in Northern Ireland until December 2005, before switching to similar close protection duties in “civvy street”. He initially worked in Afghanistan protecting British Embassy staff in Kabul and Department of Foreign and International Development staff in Helmand province, as well as safeguarding visiting politicians such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

He moved to Iraq in January 2009 and was protecting American troops building a hospital in the city of Mosul when his convoy came under attack on July 19 2010. A suicide bomb in a passing car killed Mr Crouch instantly, and wounded three of his colleagues and five Iraqi civilians. At the time he was the 30th worker for private security firm Aegis to be killed in action in Iraq since 2004.

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