In March each year, Sir Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Trust raises funds through its Summit Challenge, to support its’ work in Nepal.

By building schools and hospitals, staffing them and running programs on the ground there, they provide support directly to the people of Nepal.

If you have been fortunate enough to visit the worlds’ tallest peaks, experienced this remarkable country and the people there, you will know how much this help means to them, and how it has moved so many of them forward in a positive way, in the many years that the Himalayan Trust has been active in Nepal.

So why not join my team of Mountain Spyders, while seeing how much vertical you can climb in a month – on walks, hikes, climbs or your bicycle – anything you can log on Strava will count if you want to link to that.

You don’t have to commit to any set donation, you don’t have to commit to any ascent in meters (but you should, you know you should, this is a challenge after all).

Just go to the Summit Challenge and please join my team in assisting in this heroic mission.

And I’ll buy the next beverage if you climb more metres than me!