The trip will be organised by The Ultimate Travel Company (Charity Challenges) in London.

Our itinerary and application form are available on this web site. As well as our trek into the mountains we will also include a visit to the school in Zone 5, Guatemala City. The target for each person to fundraise will be £2,600, plus a deposit of £199.

The intrepid trek covered 160 km at an altitude of around 9,000 feet and began outside the town of Quetzaltenango. From there we walked through the villages and volcanoes of the Alaska region in Western Guatemala until reaching the village of Panajachel on the shores of Lake Atitlan. We did not hike on a conventional trekking route and camp sites were arranged for us in villages which supplied us with food and facilities along the way.

Everyone completed the main itinerary and some of us even managed the San Pedro Volcano in the foothill of Lake Atitlan after a 4 o’clock morning start with our guide, Ivan Morales. At the start of the trek we were strangers to each other but along the way - through blind panic, or the fear of waking each other up by snoring too loudly – we became firm friends.