Posts Tagged ‘Help 4 Heros Climbing Event 20th March 2010’

What an awesome event this turned out to be. We raised at least £300 with sponsorship money still to come in. What has been really special though was that Mr and Mrs Hatton were really touched and emotional by what everyone was doing and comforted by the strength of the support.

30 gym members and several spectators turned up to support  and climb the height of Kilimanjaro in a day!  What was amazing was the fact that many of the participants had never done anything like this before and were even petrified of heights. Each ascent up the wall showed courage, determination, strength and endurance. It was amazing to see people grow in confidence from almost bottling out to ascending the wall several times. Every single person was brilliant  and every single ascent was a triumph. Well done to everyone, you should be really proud of your achievement because we are.

To name a few individual triumphs:

Mary with 4 hip replacements managed 3 ascents, Christine Warren was overcome by the height 3 times and had to be lowered off but she eventually managed 3 full ascents, Gill Brogan said she wasn’t going to do it for weeks and then eventually did 10, Alex Holder completed 35 ascents, Steve Wharram and his buddy Olli completed 57 between them and a young man Joe from the university who joined in did at least 70 and was still going when we had completed……. absolutely brilliant.

The event could not have happened without York climbers so a big thank you must go to Stuart Holmes and all those that turned up to belay. If anyone has got the bug after the event and would like to do more they should visit the website: www.yorkclimbers.ning.com

WELL DONE TO THE CLIMBING HERO’S:

Steve  and Oli
Alex Holder
Karen and Jessica
Doreen
Alan and Helen
Mary and George
Joy, Rachel and Clive
Denise
Christine Warren
Christine and Lorraine
Young Alex and Lauren
Dawn
Syb and Colin
Zoey
Kath
Gill, Charlie and Dave.
Steve and Colin

THANKYOU TO:

York climbers who made it happen:
 Stu Bolton, Pete Harris, Clare Usher, Dave Garner, Pete Brown,
Joanne Thirkettle, Ian Ashton, Diane and special thanks to Stuart
Holmes for organising the climbers.

All supporters and spectators and any one for sponsoring the event.
Also thanks to Greetings of Haxby  for donating the balloons.

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