The Heron Tower, at 39 stories or just under 1,000 steps, the highest in the City.  Six of us, with varying degrees of fitness/ambition/stupidity. 

Paul's determined to climb it.  Ewan's going to run up!  David S and Martin are going to climb it twice - making it 78 stories, a bigger climb than the highest tower in the European Union.  Andrew, David H and Simon are yet to declare.  Whichever way we do it, it's going to hurt!  So please sponsor us (it's justgiving, it's quick, easy and secure) to make sure we don't back out of it!

Why?  I (David S) am doing it partly because of my nana.  She lost her hearing when I was a kid.  One day, chances are, it'll be someone in my immediate family - or me.  I don't want anyone I love to find one day that it's so hard to keep up with the conversation that they stop going out, that everyday friendship becomes just too painful to sustain, or that I have to give up ever hearing the wind or a bird ever again. 

I want there to be a cure, so it's as easy as a trip to the doctors to get your hearing back.  I work at Action on Hearing Loss, I've spent years learning about the science now, and I really believe that the research we are funding is the world's best chance of a faster route to a cure. 

If you want something to happen and nobody else is going to do it, you have to do it yourself.  So if you would like hearing loss to be curable, please sponsor us, and one day - hopefully within a generation - you will see this dream come true.