Team Hatch is back in business with its highest altitude adventure challenge to date - Mont Blanc: the Climb, Run, Bike Challenge for 2024.

In aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Charity (www.gosh.org) in the UK and Le Rire Medecin (www.leriremedecin.org) in France.

For this year's challenge we have swapped the usual endurance "Swim Bike Run" for "Climb Run Bike" with three individual events spread over 2024 and all based around Western Europe's highest peak, the mighty and majestic Mont Blanc.

Hatch is in charge as usual and attempting all three events with various members of the team alongside him and in support.

We have:

CLIMB - Hatch and Alex Dinsdale are attempting to scale the mighty Mont Blanc, all 4809 meters of it via the Italian Route, in June 2024, supported by the excellent and all professional team at Jagged Globe (the world's best expedition company according to Hatch)

RUN - then in August, Hatch and Vicky Solly are attempting two individual events at the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc festival in Chamonix. Hatch is attempting the ultimate challenge for middle distance ultra runners the OCC, a 50km race with 3425 meters of elevation and Vicky is taking on the ultra endurance CCC the 100km race with 6125 meters of elevation. A cool 9550 meters of elevation between them.... that's more than Everest!

BIKE - finally to round off the trio of Mont Blanc challenges, Hatch, Oscar Skabar and others are attempting the course of Le Tour du Mont Blanc in October 2024. Le Tour du Mont Blanc is a cycling route which circumnavigates the Mont Blanc massif and is a tasty 330km of cycling and 8300m of elevation - all to be done in under 24 hours. This is often referred to as one of, if not the, toughest one day challenges you can do on a bike! Hatch and Oscar have form here having "Everested" before together but this is a tough one. They will be joined by other team members for part or all of the attempt

The team is also supported in a major way by the wonderful team at the Altitude Centre in London which is just the most amazing training venue for those with outrageous goals :-)

This is no mean selection of challenges but in keeping with the madness that has gone before with this team and all in memory of Emma Rose who sadly died 10 years ago - she remains very much in our hearts and thoughts everyday.

We are fundraising for the GOSH Children's Charity, a cause we love and have been supporting now for many years, with a focus on life enhancing research in the area of Rheumatology and to help to provide up-to-date modern infrastructure in which the Hospital can provide its leading state of the art treatments for children with some of the rarest conditions in the world.

We are also fundraising for the wonderful team at Le Rire Medecin which is a life enhancing charity famous in France for providing professionally trained Clowns to help children continue to be children whilst they deal with hospitalisation and anxiety, and enhancing recovery. Their work has been the subject of much clinical research and proven to be extremely effective - the healing power of laughter being described as universal medicine by the philosopher Bertrand Russell. It operates in 76 medical wards in 20 hospitals across France and was set up, and continues to be led, by the wonderful and inspirational Caroline Simonds.

The fundraising plan is to raise £25k over the course of 2024 as it relates to these challenges through this Just Giving page - which links directly to GOSH - and once this milestone has been reached, a matching donation will be made to Le Rire Medecin - this matching commitment has already been secured - so,as if by magic, £25k will become £50k and each £1 given will translate to £1 to GOSH and £1 to Le Rire Medecin.

Thank you for getting this far down the page and for supporting this effort #foremma and all the other children who need support.