Icelandic Glacier Challenge

Icelandic Glacier Challenge

Our story

We are a community of people from Monaco and the Southeast region of France along with friends based further afield both elsewhere in France and the UK who have decided to take on some extreme challenges to raise money for Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People. This challenge is the first of three that we will be doing with the aim to push ourselves to our individual and collective limits in order to raise as much money as possible. Hopefully the more we suffer, the more people will sponsor us! We will trek in May across the Langjökull glacier ice cap in Iceland and then our plans are to trek to both the North and South Poles in the following couple of years. The reason why we are willing to drive ourselves forward and suffer in these challenges is simple, every child deserves to survive and thrive – no child should die of cancer or be left with debilitating side effects from treatments. Unfortunately, this is currently not the case. There are many unique barriers that are hindering progress. There is a desperate need for innovation and investment to create transformational change for young cancer patients. Cancer Research UK are driving international efforts to address this and accelerate progress to improve outcomes for children and young people with cancer. They have the vision – now they need the partners and the funds. The generosity of you, our supporters, will enable Cancer Research UK to continue making progress and save more lives. More support means more people living with cancer, not dying from it. More support means more treatments, more therapies, more hope. More support means more research. And more research means less cancer. Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People is the part of Cancer Research UK dedicated to supporting research into cancers affecting 0-24-year-olds Thank you for taking the time to read this.