{"id":2431,"date":"2026-01-04T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2431\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:56:07","slug":"laxey-man-to-take-on-kilimanjaro-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2431\/","title":{"rendered":"Laxey man to take on Kilimanjaro for charity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/259731-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture Credit &#8211; Adam Horsey<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Adam Horsey will take on the mountain for the Teenage Cancer Trust\n        <\/p>\n<p>A man from Laxey is set to take on Mount Kilimanjaro for charity later this year (August 2026).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adam Horsey, a student at Lancaster University will be undertaking the challenge in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With a target of \u00a35,000, he&#8217;s already completed two challenges &#8211; a 5km run everyday in November and exercising for a full 24 hours last month.<\/p>\n<p>Adam, whose next event is to run 115km on Douglas Promenade tomorrow (5 January) explained why he is raising money:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Located in Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa, and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world at\u00a0at 5,895 meters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old said he is up for the challenge:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about Adam&#8217;s fundraiser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/uk-kilimanjaro-25th-august-2026-student-choseachallenge-690a371fbceb0\" title=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/uk-kilimanjaro-25th-august-2026-student-choseachallenge-690a371fbceb0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture Credit &#8211; Adam Horsey Adam Horsey will take on the mountain for the Teenage Cancer Trust A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[243,2296,2293,2294,2295,636,96,2297,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-2431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fun","10":"tag-isle-of-man","11":"tag-manx","12":"tag-manx-news","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-presenters","16":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}