Sophie and Dan's Mt Toubkal Climb
Sophie Delahunty-Allsop is raising money for Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity
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*****We didn’t climb the mountain, so please no more donations!*****
I’m just keeping the page open to track details to repay people.
This September, I am going to drag myself (whinging and crying) up Mount Toubkal, the highest peak of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and I'm taking Daniel along for the ride. I'm asking for your donations to motivate me through the first ever Hard Thing I've done, and I think it would really help prevent Daniel from pushing my complaining arse off the edge of a mountain if he knew that there was money going to a worthy cause. Over 6 days, we will trek up the mountain as part of a group, camping overnight as we go, hopefully catching our breath as we take in some truly spectacular scenery. To your average (active) Joe, this would be a holiday, but for me it will be more than a little bit of a shock to the system.
Your donations will be going to a glorious cause- the Wiltshire Air Ambulance, which needs to raise £3.75m a year of public funding to keep them flying and saving lives. I was recently lucky enough to go to their new hub (just down the road from us, in Semington!) and speak to their paramedics and support staff about the wonderful work they do. This is so much more than just a method of quick transport; the staff on board have access to life saving equipment above and beyond that of a road ambulance, and all of it is specially designed to be used while choppering you along to hospital. So they can provide not only life saving treatment on the roadside, countryside, or scene of any accident, but they can keep you alive in the air as well. And when you consider that they can't feel the beat of your pulse or hear your breath with the vibrations and sounds of the rotas, you'll begin to get the picture of how much specialist equipment is needed. They also carry drugs not available to regular road ambulance paramedics, and undergo infinite situational training so that they can work just as well on a school playing field as they can in a packed nightclub or a snow shrouded woodland.
On more than one occasion, I've had someone I love pulled from the wreckage of a car, and although even the WAA haven't been able to save them, I've known since the age of 8 that there are experts available who can get to the scene of an accident quicker than you can imagine, and will do everything humanly and technologically possible to keep you alive.
Please, give them your money.
I’m just keeping the page open to track details to repay people.
This September, I am going to drag myself (whinging and crying) up Mount Toubkal, the highest peak of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and I'm taking Daniel along for the ride. I'm asking for your donations to motivate me through the first ever Hard Thing I've done, and I think it would really help prevent Daniel from pushing my complaining arse off the edge of a mountain if he knew that there was money going to a worthy cause. Over 6 days, we will trek up the mountain as part of a group, camping overnight as we go, hopefully catching our breath as we take in some truly spectacular scenery. To your average (active) Joe, this would be a holiday, but for me it will be more than a little bit of a shock to the system.
Your donations will be going to a glorious cause- the Wiltshire Air Ambulance, which needs to raise £3.75m a year of public funding to keep them flying and saving lives. I was recently lucky enough to go to their new hub (just down the road from us, in Semington!) and speak to their paramedics and support staff about the wonderful work they do. This is so much more than just a method of quick transport; the staff on board have access to life saving equipment above and beyond that of a road ambulance, and all of it is specially designed to be used while choppering you along to hospital. So they can provide not only life saving treatment on the roadside, countryside, or scene of any accident, but they can keep you alive in the air as well. And when you consider that they can't feel the beat of your pulse or hear your breath with the vibrations and sounds of the rotas, you'll begin to get the picture of how much specialist equipment is needed. They also carry drugs not available to regular road ambulance paramedics, and undergo infinite situational training so that they can work just as well on a school playing field as they can in a packed nightclub or a snow shrouded woodland.
On more than one occasion, I've had someone I love pulled from the wreckage of a car, and although even the WAA haven't been able to save them, I've known since the age of 8 that there are experts available who can get to the scene of an accident quicker than you can imagine, and will do everything humanly and technologically possible to keep you alive.
Please, give them your money.