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I woke up one morning at the beginning of November and felt absolutely compelled to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.  This is not something that happens to me very often!.....  For a naturally risk-averse individual, doing a challenge like this is completely out of my comfort zone and not something I would normally do!  It's been a very difficult year but since committing to doing the challenge, I've felt unbelievably excited and fired up.  And although this started as a personal challenge to mark the start of a new beginning, I really wanted to help a charity which is very close to my heart - Cure Leukaemia. 

My mum died of this terrible disease ten years ago, aged 56, and I miss her every day.  Leukaemia, in all its forms, is one of the most common cancers - 25,000 new cases of leukaemia or related disorders develop every year in the United Kingdom and the chance of developing leukaemia increases with age; it is especially common in adults.