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Christie’s 24-hour Seven Summits Challenge
25/26 April saw climbers at MCC taking on the
challenge of climbing the height of the Seven
Summits (43, 322 meters) in 24 hours, in
order to raise money for Christie’s hospital in
South Manchester. Enormous heights were
climbed, and sales of finger tape rocketed as
over 200 climbers took to the ropes, including
over 60 hardy souls taking on the full 24 hour
challenge.
The event was officially opened by the Lord
Mayor of Manchester, and ITV’s
Dr Chris Steele, along with over 70 young
climbers from Manchester High School for Girls.
Hollyoaks star Stuart Manning also added his
effort to the proceedings.
MHSG girls prepare for their climb
Christie Bear also made an appearance, and even
had a climb….
A fierce competitive spirit quickly took over,
leading to some incredible feats of endurance.
Anyone fancy trying to beat the current record of
1700m without resting? The target height of
43,322 metres was achieved in an incredible 5
hours, and so further targets were needed to keep
the motivation flowing!
Christie Bear does his bit for
The event!
The event was now the ’Fourteen 8000-metre
peaks Challenge’, giving us a target height of
just over 115,000m. Teams climbed
throughout the night, spurred on by huge
amounts of Gatorade and other sugary
goodness, and the target was one again within
reach. By 9am, target no. 2 was in sight.
climbing
Extreme Rock, one of the
teams, with Christie Bear
Once again, climbing was proving too easy,
and so the original mountains were added
back on! We were now aiming for a height of
150,000m, and everyone was still worryingly
awake…
Brendan and Jonny preparing for
another assault of the wall
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By the end of the event, an amazing
161,580.5m had been climbed.
The team climbing the highest consisted of
world class climbers John Dunne, Dave
Barrans, and James Pearson, who notched up
15,710m between them.
Dave Barrans and James Pearson2 members of the winning team!
This event was conceived by Molly and
Sophie, two 10-year-olds who are
regular climbers at MCC. Molly’s mum
Carol is a patient at Christie’s and the
girls were inspired to come up with an
original way to raise money to help the
hospital continue its vital work.
The event also included a Silent Auction
and Lowest Bid Auction, which raised
Carol and Molly prepare for their climb
over £4000 for Christie’s. This event is
set to raise much more through sponsorship raised by the teams!
Keep your ear to the ground for next year’s event, which promises to
be even bigger!
A full list of team results is available at
www.manchesterclimbingcentre.com
The event organisers would like to thank the following for their support during the
organising and running of the event.
Cotswold Outdoor
The North Face
Mountain Equipment
Gatorade
Eat Natural
Walkers Crisps
Network Print and Packaging
Key Holidays
Ellis Brigham
Rooftop Records
Duerr’s
Rocks Café
Warburton’s
The Co-Op
Park Cakes
Swizzles Matlow
JD Sports
Universal Pictures
Manchester United FC
Manchester City FC
Wall’s
Allied Bakeries
Tesco
Fresh Sandwiches
There are so many other people who have helped out, so a big thankyou to all of you
and apologies for not listing everyone individually.
Special thanks to all who put so much time and energy into helping out on the day
with catering, marshalling, tombola, auction…… and also to Carol, Sharon, Molly, and
Sophie for the idea!