The Hike Itself:

• 24th November to 3rd December 2001.

• Participants: 68 from around Scotland plus 2 from Maggie's Centre.

• Distance covered: 140 km over 5 full days & 2 half days (around 20 km/day).

• Walked in 4 groups of about 16 with 2 guides per group (one from Britain & one local) plus 2 doctors on rotation.

• Daytime temperature: 30-40 deg Celsius.

• Personal injuries: none.

• Injuries to others: plenty (millions of blisters, heat exhaustion, dehydration, sun-burn, inflammed achillies and even groin cramps!!!).

• Serious casualities: none.

• Slept in tents, ate fantastic food, only carried a day pack consisting of first-aid kit, camera, 3-litres of water and sweeties. Our main pack was transported around from camp to camp.

• Money raised personally: £2725.

• Total money raised after expenses: £125,000. Thank you very much.

How the money was raised:

• A sponsored dare. I wore a bikini for an evening at a cocktail/beach party (£135 raised - thanks Claire)

• A very successful cake sale (£200 in 1 hour of frantic sales)

• A (very generous) £135 donation from Sir Philip Cohen

• £50 from Upstate Discovery/Argonex

• £100 Fisher Scientific

• £50 Bio-Rad

• A second cake sale yesterday (23rd July)

• A ‘Salsa Night' at Raffles Bar, Perth road (about £350 raised)

• A Pub Crawl selling tickets for the "Grand Raffle" (£100 approx worth of tickets sold).

• The Grand Raffle (about £350 raised).

• Garland Cafe loose change collection (£80 raised).

• School of Life Sciences Golf tournament collection (£60 raised. Thank you Calum).

• Charity football tournament

• Many, many more personal donations of various sizes (£520 raised. Thank you all)

A BIG thank you to everyone who has helped to raise so much!