Cousins trek 60 miles across Sahara for charity

Two cousins from Box in Wiltshire have completed a 60-mile charity trek across the Sahara Desert.

Abi and Harriet Fisher collected over £3,000 in sponsorship and are hoping to get more now they have finished their arduous journey, the Stroud Life reports.

All of the money raised will go to Help for Heroes – which can count Jeremy Clarkson and Ross Kemp among its patrons – and the girls completed the journey with a number of ex-soldiers.

The main reason they decided to take part was to "do our bit for the boys", Abi Fisher stated.

She added it had been a "privilege" to spend time with Simon Brown, who lost his vision when rescuing fellow servicemen in Iraq.

The Fishers come from a military family, with their grandfather a former commander of the Gurkhas and Abi's brother training to be a Royal Marine.

Temperatures ranged from 40 degrees C to -5 degrees C on the trek.

Posted by Samantha Thompson