United behind a single mission: supporting the Everest Centre’s world-leading breakthroughs in childhood brain tumour research

Ten years ago, Rob and Tanya’s world changed forever when their son Toby was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Faced with few options and devastating uncertainty, they chose to act.

Everest in the Alps was born: a challenge as tough as the fight families face, designed to drive real, life-saving research.

By 2016, their friends, and supporters had raised enough to launch the Everest Centre, providing the space and resources for an international collaboration of world-leading scientists to pioneer new treatments. Over the last decade, the challenge has raised more than £6 million and funded stages one and two of this critical research. Already, the centre has advanced cutting-edge technologies to improve diagnostic tests, is developing AI tools for more precise tumour classification, and has identified pathways by which cancer cells grow. It has also carried out the largest immune study ever on childhood brain tumours. Real progress has been made, but the need is urgent. Brain tumours remain the biggest cancer killer of children. Toby is now 18 – living with the impact of his tumour, still hoping for a cure for children like him.

In 2026, the team climbs with a single, unifying purpose: to accelerate research and push forbreakthroughs that could transform outcomes for children like Toby. This is no ordinary challenge. It is a focused, high-stakes effort – building on a decade of progress and powering the next wave of research that could change the future for children with brain tumours.

We climb to fight back. To stand with every child and family facing this diagnosis. To push the science forward. And to bring us closer to a cure.