The Everest Project is a group of individuals raising funds to pay for the pioneering work of The Everest Centre medical research institute, which is accelerating the development of effective treatments for children diagnosed with brain tumours. 

Over £6.6 million has been raised so far and the Everest Centre has made ground-breaking progress in science. However there is much more to be done, and we need your help now to ensure that The Everest Centre can get the funding to complete this critically important work.

Funded by the Brain Tumour Charity, The Everest Centre for Research into Paediatric Low Grade Brain Tumours is a ground-breaking international research initiative bringing together experts from Germany and the UK.

The Everest Centre is led by Dr David Jones whose research into brain tumours is helping the world better understand low grade (slower growing) tumours, and develop kinder, more effective treatments for children diagnosed with these types of tumours.

There are currently 26,800 children living [worldwide] with a brain tumour, and low grade brain tumours are the most common childhood primary brain tumour. Children with this type of tumour often go through many rounds of treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. The treatment can have a profound long-term effect on their health and wellbeing. The Everest Centre’s research will help affected children and their families by finding tailored treatments targeting the precise tumour type which could minimise the long-term effects and improve their quality of survival,
helping us to halve the harm that brain tumours have.

The Everest Centre’s objective is to double survival rates and to halve the harm done by brain tumours in children – but, like climbing Everest, it is not simple and your help is needed.  More information about the centre’s work and the huge progress they have made so far is available here:

https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org/brain-tumour-diagnosis-treatment/child-brain-tumour-research/everest-centre/

The Everest Centre was launched in 2015 as a direct result of funds raised by Rob and Tanya Ritchie. Their son Toby was just five-years-old when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Living with a brain tumour is Toby’s Everest and he faces his challenge every day.

You can learn more about Toby’s story by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwvz5x0QxQ 

We are undertaking the Everest in the Alps challenge which has been described as the hardest four days on skis –  a unique physical and mental challenge which will push us all to our limits.

The goal is to climb the 8,848 vertical metres that Mount Everest sits above sea level.  To achieve this we will be climbing” uphill on touring skis, over four days in the Swiss Alps.  Along with around 40 others all raising funds for the Everest Centre, each day we will climb for 10-12 hours, burning 10,000 calories and using the energy required to complete three marathons – that’s every day for four days! We will sleep in mountain huts and set out before dawn in temperatures that can drop as low as -30c.

More information about the challenge here: www.thebraintumourcharity.org/get-involved/everest-challenge/

We are aiming to raise at least £100,000 to help fund the future of The Everest Centre.

Of all the money raised for cancer research in the UK, only 3.2% is spent on research into brain tumours. And only a small percentage of that is dedicated to research that supports children living with a brain tumour, even though brain tumours have the worst fatality rate of any cancer, and are the biggest cancer killer for people under the age of 40. The maths just does not add up, but we want to contribute towards changing that.

With your help, we can move further and faster towards a world where brain tumours are defeated.

And to be clear, our participation in the Everest in the Alps challenge, including travel, training, equipment, guides, etc is entirely self-funded. That means that 100% of the money we raise will go directly towards funding The Everest Centre.

We are looking for both corporate sponsors and charitable donations to hit our target.

Charitable donation: If you would like to make a charitable donation please donate via this page or contact robert@delaszlo.com
for more detail on corporate sponsorship opportunities.

Many thanks

The Everest
Project Team