Great Wilderness Challenge

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Every year, the picturesque Scottish Highland villages of Poolewe and Aultbea, along with the surrounding country estates, play host to one of Scotland’s most gruelling endurance sporting events for charity. The Great Wilderness Challenge more than aptly lives up to its name.

Against some of the most beautiful and rugged scenic landscape on offer in the United Kingdom, the Challenge consists of a number of physically demanding walks and runs over a variety of distances and terrains.

In early 1986, plans were afoot to provide hospice care in the Highlands for the first time. The Highland Hospice Appeal was set in motion to raise funds for the project, and a Highland-wide campaign was launched in support of this initiative.

A small group of friends in Poolewe and Aultbea, some of whom had recently lost relatives to cancer, decided to do something to help. A sponsored walk was the vehicle chosen to raise funds, and arrangements were quickly made to organise what would become known as the Great Wilderness Challenge.

A DVD of the event including interviews with key personnel and runners is in the process of being produced.

To reserve your copy please contact the secretary of Great Wilderness Challenge,  Pat Ross at patgwc@onetel.com – www.greatwildernesschallenge.info (photo courtesy of Colin Robertson, official photographer of the GWC)

All funds raised from the sale of the DVD will be going straight to Charity.