Hi - I'm Paul - thanks for stopping by our fund-raising page - I am 35 years old and together with my sister Laura, my best friend Emma Mills and a team of other close friends (Sharon Stiff, Sarah Mills and Holly Pearson) we are going to scale Kilimanjaro!

In October of 2017, out of the blue, our Dad was diagnosed with CJD. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, fatal brain disorder. It affects about one person in every one million people per year worldwide.

I explicitly recall the diagnosis from the specialists who flew down from Edinburgh to see us. There is no cure. This is fatal. Life expectancy = months. Those were the only words I that I have continued to play around and around in my head ever since. This is 2017 I thought, WHY is there no cure?

Our Dad meant the world to us. He was our everything. He had recently just retired, and I for one was looking forward to him enjoying a well earned rest with my mum, spending their retirement together after his lifetime career at BP.

We are too late to help our Dad, but not to help others. Dad sadly passed aware in March 2018 after a rapid decline as the disease destroyed his brain bit by bit. I've heard it described as Alzheimers, Parkinson's, Huntingdon's and Motor Neurone disease all rolled into one. It is a monster disease.

Myself and my sister have thrown our focus into making a difference. What can we do we thought to fight this monster to help others. So, here we are, about to climb Kilimanjaro in September 2019, the biggest challenge either of us have ever faced!

Please donate to our cause. We promise plenty of drama and photos to prove it on the way up (and down) the highest mountain on the face of this earth. 19,000ft. Above the clouds. Using a hole in the ground for a toilet.

We will be forever grateful if you can help us re-write the history of this disease that stole away our father in such a devastating, haunting fashion.