Group of Friends from Basingstoke climbed Snowdon and raised more than £5,000 for St Michaels Hospice

On Saturday, August 13 a group of seven friends took the Llanberis route to reach the summit at Snowdon, which is the highest mountain in Wales and England.

It took them a total of seven hours to reach the top and get back down, including a couple of prosecco breaks. 

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Kelley Bowers, 43, who is a second year student nurse at Basingstoke hospital and a health care support worker, said: "We wanted to support St Michaels Hospice because four out of the seven of us work in healthcare and one of us actually works for the hospice, and we are just local people who wanted to support a local charity. I think it's easy for people to forget that hospices are really reliant on chariable donations. 

"We didn't do a lot to prepare ourselves for the climb, I think we underestimated it slightly, but we definitley kept motivated with the cause we was supporting!"

She continued: "On the day it was absolutley boiling, we left to come up at 7am because we wanted it to be a little bit quieter and I am so glad we did because the view from the top was amazing and on the journey back down Snowdon it was so hot. I felt sorry for the people we saw who were just starting their climb!

Their view from the summit at Snowdon.

"Overall, it was an amazing experience and we are all so glad we did it."

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St Michaels Hospice aims to enable anyone faced with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers, with the best quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.

£3,142 was also pledged by the company Lenovo in support of group of friends climb for the hospice. 

To donate go to justgiving.com/fundraising/kelley-bowers1.