Wight Extreme Hike, Firefighter Challenge 2006

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Photograph of Wight Extreme Hike team, Firefighter Challenge 2006

Wight Extreme Hike, Firefighter Challenge 2006

The Wight Extreme Hike is being undertaken to raise money for the Wessex Wight Appeal from the Wessex Cancer Trust, which is raising funds for the Isle of Wight Chemotherapy Unit.

The challenge is for a team of Firefighters from Green Watch, Newport Fire Station, Isle of Wight, was to walk round the coastline of the Isle of Wight over three days.

The Islands coastline is quite varied along its length; there are stretches of sandy beach, shear cliff faces, blue slipper mud, pebbles and almost impossible tangles of tree roots. It is obviously hoped that the weather is going to be fine and sunny but the challenge will still go ahead even if it is tipping down! The only weather condition that would seriously effect the challenge is high winds, which would make areas like the Needles and Rocken end just too dangerous to navigate.

The team sucessfully completed the challenge and raised £17,187.69 for the Wessex Wight Appeal from the Wessex Cancer Trust in aid of the Isle of Wight Chemotherapy Unit.