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On 4th May i am attempting to cycle Everest, supporting my friend James Badger who lost his wife to blood cancer two years ago.

'Everesting' requires continuous repetitions of the same hill until the equivilent altitude of Everest has been met, or 8,848m. In our case that requires 90 reps of a hill with an average gradient of 11%.

Thanks for your support! It means a great deal.

The background is below:-

My wife Philippa was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (a Blood Cancer) on 20th April 2022 and very sadly died on 22nd April 2022 while being treated with Chemotherapy at St James’s Hospital in Leeds. Leaving three young children aged 12, 10 and 6.

We are raising funds for research into treatments of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Currently the survival rate for the type of Blood Cancer that Philippa had is just 10%. Research can made a real difference, through the work of BloodCancerUK the survival rates for childhood Leukaemia has improved from just 10% to over 85%. We want to support the same for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.

With BloodCancerUK we will be funding a specific research project into Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. A 3 year fully funded research programme will cost £300,000.

In April 2023 to mark the first anniversary of Philippa’s death I cycled 1,600kms from Land’s End to John O'Groats in just 8 days. I was supported all the way by three friends on bikes (Richard Baldwin, Adam Ellis and Anthony Frazer) and Miles Foster in the support vehicle.

Our fundraising continues and this year we are Everesting!!!!

Our story has been captured on our Instagram page

https://www.instagram.com/team_badger_lejog/

Thank you to those that have supported us so far.

James, Isabel, Alice and Thomas