Greetings!

I am heading out to Zambia August-February to work for the above charity. I'll be supporting local trainee anaesthetists through teaching, research and quality improvement projects.

For some context, parts of Zambia have 1 physician anaesthetist per 500,000 population, whilst the WHO recommend 20 per 500,000 population. Supporting and growing this incredibly valuable workforce is fundamental to safe anaesthetic care in Zambia.

I would really appreciate your donation in order to help these vital anaesthetists complete their training and become leaders in Zambian healthcare. GADP is a small but mighty charity that runs off the free time of doctors and generous donations. Lets help it run for years to come.

More info here: https://gadpartnerships.com/

I'll be attempting two rides in order to thoroughly enter the pain cave and justify your hard earned pounds.

1) June: "North Wales 300". 300km, 8000m ascent mountain bike route through north Wales/Snowdonia. Cheeky ascent up Snowdon half way around is an absurd route choice but if I get the timings right I will try and muddle up. This will take around 3 ish days I suspect! I plan to bivvy my way around on minimal sleep. Yeeha!

https://www.tombrucecycling.com/north-wales-bikepacking

2) July: Lakeland 200. 200km, 6000m ascent Easily the most physically challenging mountain bike route in England. Lots of hike-a-bike make this another 3-4 day-er. Basically I have no clue how long!

https://bikepacking.com/routes/lakeland-200-uk/

Plan is to take a few videos along the way to show you how easy I'm finding it and how great the weather is ;) I expect these will go on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/nick_s55/