Jim Walmsley

Patrouille des Glaciers test route: 2024

Fundraising for The Intensive Care Society
£5,241
raised of £5,000 target
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ZERMATT TO VERBIER 2024 An iconic high alpine traverse following the route of the PDG, 7 April 2024
The Intensive Care Society would like to invite you to support our team as they take on one of the most iconic mountain endurance challenges in the world, pushing themselves both mentally and physically.

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Fundraising for the Intensive Care Society (ICS), I am seeking to support dedicated ICS staff in being able to better look after the most critically unwell in society.

As a Specialist Paramedic (Critical Care) within the pre-hospital arena, I am in close contact with patients considered to be 'time critical'. Intervening early to treat, stabilise, and safely support such patients; often as a pre-hospital medical service, I am handing over to ICS teams in hospital.

ICS provides a range of wellbeing, training and CPD opportunities for all associated clinicians who work in Intensive Care: allowing for improved care, well-being, up to date training in addition to many more opportunities. The Thriving at Work Project is set up to support all staff. You can find out more at:

https://ics.ac.uk/thrive.html

In March/April 2024 a small team and myself will be taking on one of the biggest and toughest 'ski mountaineering' expeditions: considered to be one of the toughest courses in the world. The Patrouille des Glaciers (PdG) covers a combined total of 57.5 kms at altitudes of up to 3,650 metres in the high mountains of the Alps.

Over the course of the tour the team will face the very real risk of the mountains, managing changing snow conditions, the hazards of glacier crossing and avoiding crevasses, freezing temperatures and everything associated with being at high altitude.

Completing the route over four days, and I am looking for individual and corporate sponsors to enable the team to raise funds (in excess of £25000 - all of which goes right to ICS's 'Thriving at Work' project).

Due to being partly self funded with the help of an external sponsor, everything you donate goes completely to the ICS 🙏

If you are able to support ICS, the team, myself and inevitably other healthcare professionals such as Advanced Critical Care Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacists, Speech, Language or Occupational Therapists across the country: then please do not hesitate to donate:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/jim-walmsley-1682074974686

You can keep up to date with our progress on here, as well as my social media platforms X & Instagram on: #PdG2024ICS

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The Intensive Care Society would like to invite you to support our team as they take on one of the most iconic mountain endurance challenges in the world, pushing themselves both mentally and physically.

About the charity

The Intensive Care Society

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The Intensive Care Society is the UK's leading critical care body. We support the entire intensive care community as they care for the sickest of patients. We exist to improve the lives of those teams by providing research, guidance, education, wellbeing and a lot more...

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