Thank you for your interest in my challenge. I work in a large and busy intensive care unit as a clinical pharmacist. While our work is rewarding and inspiring, as I'm sure you can imagine, over the last few years we have faced enormous challenges. For many (myself included) these challenges have brought us close to breaking point. The Intensive Care Society have been the backbone supporting staff through this period and continue to offer support and opportunities to professionals working in intensive care. It is their support that has pulled may of us through this period. To have the opportunity to raise funds for them in this manner is a privilege and honour.

Considered to be one of the toughest courses in the world, the PDG covers a 57.5 km route at altitudes of up to 3,650 metres between Zermatt and Verbier. Our Zermatt to Verbier challenge is not a race, instead the team will complete this famous alpine traverse at a more achievable pace. The trek will take four days, and were looking for sponsors to enable the team as well as raising funds for the ICSs Thriving at Work project.

The PDG course is described as one of the toughest of its kind in the world and for good reason. Over the five days the team will face the risk of avalanches, the hazards of glacier crossing, freezing temperatures

and altitude sickness