{"id":1527,"date":"2012-05-03T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1527"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:04:22","slug":"everest-challenge-to-raise-cash-for-military-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/everest-challenge-to-raise-cash-for-military-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest challenge to raise cash for military charity"},"content":{"rendered":"
A bricklayer from Wales will scale Everest as part of a military charity challenge.<\/p>\n
Roger Jones is one of four people selected – one each from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland – to take part in Everest 2012 and all of the money raised will go to Walking With The Wounded.<\/p>\n
Speaking to ITV, Mr Jones said he was "bursting with pride" to be involved and is looking forward to bringing the Welsh flag to the summit.<\/p>\n
"I'm a massive supporter of the armed forces and all they do for us … I can't wait to do us proud as a nation," he added.<\/p>\n
Mr Jones went on to note he has been climbing Snowdon and the Conwy Mountains in order to prepare himself for the expedition.<\/p>\n
The team taking part is hoping to raise £2 million from scaling the mountain and the money will go towards re-training injured servicemen and women to help them adapt to their new lives.<\/p>\n
Posted by Mark Wilkins <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A group of people will scale Everest in order to collect cash for Help for Heroes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n