Dr Martin Jones of Bewick Crescent Surgery is about to attempt the ‘Three Peaks Challenge’  climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowden which has to be completed within 24 hours.
This involves nearly 25 miles of walking, with 10,000 feet of ascent, to top the highest summits in Scotland, England and Wales.
Martin has been to teach health care workers in Nepal on 2 occasions, and he has been to extremely remote, mountainous regions, which can be up to 6 days walk from a hospital.
The nurses the charity employs have only 18 months initial training, and need help in developing their skills to work as GPs and midwives combined.The charity funds their training and pays their wages, as well as organising British GPs to travel to Nepal to teach and support them. The doctors pay all their own expenses, down to the food which is mainly rice and lentils.
Most people have no electricity no sanitation and no running water in their houses, and they are chronically short of food. People become very sick from preventable illnesses like gastroenteritis, and education is just as important as medicines under the circumstances.
He is hoping to raise some money for the charity PHASE Worldwide , and donations can be made at Bewick Crescent Surgery or Heighington surgery, Bewick Pharmacy or online at virginmoneygiving.com/DrMartinJones