This Doncaster girls football team are 'climbing' Everest, Kilimanjaro and K2 for the NHS

They are three of the world’s best known and toughest mountains – and now girls from this Doncaster junior football team are tackling Everest, Kilimanjaro and K2 to raise cash for the NHS.
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Players from Scawthorpe Scorpions U12s are taking on the gruelling challenge in their own lockdown version of the 3 Peaks Challenge.

But rather than actually scaling some of the globe’s most feared peaks the team will be doing it from the comfort of their own homes and gardens.

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The group of 9-12 year olds have split into separate mini-teams to take on the challenge.

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Scawthorpe Scorpions U12s Girls

Each team will walk the equivalent steps of climbing and descending the three biggest mountains in the world.

Mount Everest - 58,070 steps

K2 - 57,770 steps

Kilimanjaro - 38,060 steps

– a combined distance of 309,040 steps.

The steps will be recorded daily by team captains and reported to "base camp" where they will be added up. The first team to complete the 309,040 steps wins.

Mum Dawn Booth said: “We anticipate this will take the teams 5-7 days to complete. This will mean the girls need to complete an average of 9,500 steps each per day with the coaches making up the rest but limited to no more than 5,000 steps per day.

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“On a standard day, 9,500 steps would be easy but in lockdown the majority of steps will have to be completed in their own homes or back gardens using their own motivation.

“This is quite a big challenge for a group of young girls but it will be an amazing achievement. As coaches we know they will all give it everything they have got.

“Amongst the girls parents we have our own NHS heroes and lots of keyworkers doing an amazing job at such an unprecedented time so the girls want to do their bit and show how much they love and support them.”

The girls are raising cash for The Association of NHS Charities, the same charity 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore has raised £24 million for by walking 100 laps of his garden.

You can follow the girls’ efforts on Facebook HERE and donate at the Just Giving page HERE