The Butterwick Children's Hospice team consisted of a very mixed group of 45 people ranging from 17 years of age up to people in their early fifties. Mainly coming from the North-east of England, around Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesborough, although myself and Sarah are from Leicester in the East Midlands and there were a couple from Edinburgh. We all came from different backgrounds, including doctors, policemen, accountants, and a pathologist !! It was quite fortunate that we had 5 doctors with us as we were quite a large group, and along with us there were approximately 107 porters and 12 guides, as well as Geremy Gane (the tour leader) from Gane and Marshall, Tim Calder who is to take over from Geremy and Steve Dawson from Classic Tours who organise the charity events.

The group members were all fairly fit, but some more so than others so we were split into 3 groups, supposedly with the slowest in the first group and the quickest group leaving the campsites last. It seemed though that all 3 groups were evenly split, especially on the days leading up to the summit when everyone was walking slowly anyway. Out of the 45 team members 42 made it to Stella Point on the crater rim and a further 20 made it up to the highest point in Africa - Uhuru Peak

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