Great Glen Canoe Expedition

By Sam Mitchell, Jonathan Milward, Martin Steele and Matthew O'Neill

60 mile canoe and wild camping expedition from Fort William to Inverness

Thanks for visiting our fundraising page. In 2001, when Sam was 16, his Dad, Neil Mitchell, died from pancreatic cancer.  Diagnosis of pancreatic cancer can take a long time, often with many visits to the doctors and possible misdiagnoses along the way - as was the case Neil. Around 80% of pancreatic cancer patients are not diagnosed until the cancer is at an advanced stage. At this late stage, surgery is nearly always not possible – yet is the only known treatment that has the potential to cure the disease. Neil died at the age of 53, just four months after being given the diagnosis. 

This May, a small group of us will be taking on the challenge of paddling from Fort William to Inverness along the Great Glen Trail in open canoes. Over five days we will paddle 60 miles and wild camp on the shores of the lochs.  We are looking forward to the challenge ahead of us to raise funds to help Pancreatic Cancer UK, to aid their committed and sustained investment in early diagnosis research.


My donations could fund...

47 hours with a nurse on our Support Line

or

21 hours of early diagnosis research

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Thank you!

I wanted to put a post here to say a massive thank-you to all who have donated to this important cause.  

On Sunday morning Jonny, Matty, Mart and I will be loading our kit in the van and heading up to Inverness to prepare for the start or our journey.  Packing our carefully selected kit is well underway.  All of us trying to work out how we're going to get it all in varying sizes of dry bags and working out ration supplies for 5 days away from civilisation in the Scottish wilderness.  A mixture of hammocks, tarps, tents and, of course, midge nets are ready to go.  

I'll aim to post updates on here daily throughout the week.   I'm sure we'll also be posting on instagram so please follow the below accounts to keep up to date with the expedition. 

@martsteele47
@matthewoneill
@jonnymilward85
@samlmitchell

Thank you again for donating and supporting.  It means a lot to all of us and to get to over £1,000 is truly beyond our expectations.  

Sam 


Thank you to my Sponsors

£30.16

Charlotte Green

£52

Mark Fidell

Well done guys, was great to do it with you.

£31.20

Dan, Rach & Jessica

All the best lads.

£30.16

Guy And Heidi

Best of luck!!

£20.80

Marnie Buckley

Good Luck to all of you. Such a great cause!

£40

John And Pat Cox

Really good cause, it will be a great achievement

£10

Jan B

A small donation for a worthy cause. Wishing you all well for your expedition and fund raising.

£10.40

Gillian O'neill

Good luck boys. Hope you enjoy the experience

£26

Henry Mitchell

Best of luck chaps… Sure to be an awesome journey!

£20.80

Tim Antos

Go Sam!!!! May the Loch waves bid you good speed

£60.32

Olly & Anna

Looks like an epic adventure! Good luck and have fun!!!

£10.40

Harrison James

£10.40

Jo, David, Andrew, Matthew

Enjoy the fantastic scenery a very worthy cause

£40

Colin Steele

Have a great adventure guys! :-)

£8.32

Sandra Pell

All the best for this worthy cause!

£20.80

Alex Winfield

£20.80

Rich Kirk

£10.40

Luke Finch

Good luck guys !

£100

Clive And Gill Peggram

What an adventure, have a great one, such a worthy cause

£26

Carol Dunne

Good luck everyone, an incredible challenge for a very worthy cause.

£20.80

Ro Smith

Wishing you all the best of luck!

£40

Jenny Mitchell

You’re crazy….. good luck! 👍🏻

£20.80

Clare Willetts

Good luck! You’re doing something amazing 😄

£10

Ellie G

Good luck and enjoy !

£60

Anonymous

Go for it boys! xx

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Leslie Steele

Great cause and challenge, good luck to you all!

£20

Dawn Ealey

What a great thing to do. Good Luck. Hope the weather is kind to you.

£10.40

Susie Carter

Good luck and have fun

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Sharon

What a challenge Martin for a worthy charity, the best of luck to you all x

£104

Graham And Susanne Milward

Madness deserves some reward.

£30.16

Gordon Mitchell

Good luck on your trip.

£20.80

Vinnie And Julie Mackenzie

Good luck Sam!!

£104

Susie Green

Good luck to you all, a worthy cause

£20

Oliver Nakoneczny

£20.80

Amanda Campbellphillips

Keep the end in sight 👊

£10.40

Hannah Brown

A very worthy cause, we’ll done chaps! Jonty I presume your the Cox?

£22.88

Geraint Davies

£20

Mary Davey

£20.80

Anonymous

£15

Catherine R

Good luck with your expedition and fundraising!

£15.60

Karin

What an adventure for such a great cause. xx

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