7
of us at work have decided to put down our pens, put on some
comfortable shoes and do a charity challenge thing called the 'Three
Peaks Challenge'.
The
Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing the three highest peaks,
respectively, in England, Wales and Scotland, within 24 hours. The
Peaks are:
Snowdon,
in Wales (1085m)
Scafell
Pike,
in England (978m)
Ben
Nevis,
in Scotland (1344m)
Basically,
its well hard.
I'm
doing it for The Nottinghamshire And Lincolnshire Air Ambulance...
listen
up now, here's why.
Last
September my sister was kicked in the face by her horse (they have
metal feet or summat). 'Cus it happened miles from anywhere and she
was totally on her own I cant believe the story didn't end up a lot
worse.
Luckily
she managed to crawl in to the nearby road and a passing motorist saw
her, stopped and called the Ambulance.
Within
minutes the Air Ambulance arrived, landed in the next field and had
her in the hospital where she underwent 8 hours of emergency surgery.
I don't want to go in to too much detail, but as you can imagine, it
was a bad one.
I
think when it comes to charity stuff, services like this are some
what overlooked and as they saved my sisters life I own 'em a lot
right?! So ill do a silly big walk ok.
Please
give some money for this. It means a hell of a lot to me and so many
others.
Below
are some words that tell you of their work...
The
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance is a dedicated medical
air service which first began operations in Lincolnshire in April
1994.
Based
at RAF Waddington, south of Lincoln, and unaffected by road
congestion, country roads, heavy vehicles or road works the
Helicopter can reach any destination in Lincolnshire and
Nottinghamshire in 19 minutes.
In
the financial year 2007/2008 we flew 1104 missions and on 6th March
2008 completed our 10,000th mission.
Good
right??
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