He’s normally found tending the gardens of one of the Lake District’s best known hotels but Trevor Jones has set his sights on achieving a challenge with a difference.
Trevor is half way through a year-long campaign to climb Wansfell Pike every day.
The 62-year old, who works at Langdale Chase Hotel on Windermere, is raising money for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation named after rugby player Doddie Weir and is committed to funding research to find effective treatments to motor neurone disease.
Trevor began the challenge on June 20 last year and is due to finish on the same day this year.
The 487m fell may seem a straightforward ascent but when he finishes he will have scaled the equivalent of going up and down Mount Everest 18 times.
Despite recent challenging weather Trevor is on track to achieve his goal much to the admiration of his colleagues.
“Trevor has been tending to the gardens at Langdale Chase for the last 25 years and we recently recognised this at our long service awards,” Langdale Chase general manager Mike Vincent said. “At the age of 62 the fact that he is putting himself through this level of sustained endurance to raise money to help others says a lot about the sort of person he is – a real inspiration.”
