Rick's 2020 Kilimanjaro MHF Challenge

Welcome to my big challenge! Hello! I am Rick Leach, a presently quite unfit 58-year old Grandad, full time Civil Servant and part time writer and Arts Editor for the Getintothis music site. . I’ve decided to undertake a quite frankly nerve-jangling attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro - all 19,341 feet of it - to support and raise funds for the Mental Health Foundation charity. It’s a massive yet worthwhile undertaking and one that will see me having to become fitter and healthier and radically changing my lifestyle beforehand - you may have seen some celebrities recently climbing it as part of Comic Relief . Mental health affects so many of us and in so many ways and is something I feel passionately about. We all need to raise awareness, break the stigma surrounding mental health and bring about change and this is my small way to do something about it. My attempt is happening in October 2020 so I do have a bit of time however to get prepared. I’ll