...and the story of our journey over all 130 of them
Dr Paul Fettes, Consultant Anaesthetist & Honorary Senior Lecturer at Ninewells Hospital & Medical School is writing a book on the 2015 Challenge and has sponsorship opportunities available for local businesses.
The Challenge
\"What a great idea! Why has this not been done before?\" Mark Beaumont.
The Challenge took place in June 2015, and was featured on The Adventure Show and in articles in Scotland Outdoors, The Sunday Mail, The Sunday Herald, and in numerous articles in The Dundee Courier. The Challenge went over all the 1000m mountains in Scotland with 100m drop on all sides. It took the form of a human powered relay on foot, bike and kayak, from sea level to sea level, and from the North sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The Challenge took 15 days 9 hours to complete and was in aid of the Archie Foundation www.archiefoundationhome.org.uk and charity number SCO39521. We raised £33000, but also helped launch and establish the profile of ARCHIE in Tayside. It was a massive team exercise, which was completely successful in its aim, and we certainly enjoyed the journey!
The Book
Mark Beaumont was involved in the planning stages and has written a Foreword. The book will be published in June. The book contains accounts of every leg in the challenge, written by the participants. The accounts are spun together in a way that really brings the challenge to life. The books really exemplifies the attitude that if you really go for things in life, it is amazing what you can achieve. The book also contains a wealth of wonderful photos taken during the event, and there is a map and summary of each day.
For further information on the different sponsorship opportunities please contact Dr Fettes direct paulfettes@nhs.net
The Archie Foundation
The Archie Foundation are the official children`s charity for Tayside children`s hospital. We are near completion of our new Theatre Suite which 2 million was raised for this project.
