Snowdon trek raises £1000 for Teenage Cancer Trust

Intrepid students who faced gales and torrential rain on a charity walk up Mount Snowdon have raised £1,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Twenty-seven Sport and Uniformed Services students from Cambridge Regional College battled through appalling weather to reach the halfway mark before being forced to turn back.

But undaunted, nine students and staff got up at sunrise the following morning to start the climb again, racing to the summit of Wales’s highest mountain to achieve their fundraising target.

The money will go to the TCT Ward C9 at Addenbrooke’s Hospital – a cause very close to the students’ hearts as one of their fellow students has been receiving treatment there.

Lecturer Neil Andrews, who organised the trip, said the group had been determined to complete the climb.

“We wanted to do something to show our support for him and for all young people fighting cancer, and we are delighted to have raised £1,000 thanks to all the support we received,” he said.

To find out more about the work of the Teenage Cancer Trust, see https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/

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