Inspirational West Yorkshire man live streaming staircase climb the equivalent of Everest for cancer charity

An inspirational West Yorkshire man is live streaming climbing his staircase the equivalent height of Everest for a cancer charity in memory of his mother-in-law.

Robert Blacka, from Bradford, is set to go up and down his stairs a total of 4424 times over the course of the Easter weekend - all streamed live on Facebook.

Robert tragically lost his mother-in-law to cancer in February and is completing the challenge on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support.

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He has raised over £1000 for the charity already and is currently on the first leg of his charity venture.

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On the fundraising page, Robert said: "I am doing this challenge on behalf of my mother in law, my mum number 2, Maureen Kellett, or Lil Mo as everyone knew her who passed away on the 18th February 2020 from Cancer.

"I've known I wanted to do something in her memory and have recently been inspired by Radio 1's Sport Relief efforts to climb the height of Mt Everest on my stairs at home - I feel sick just typing that!

"That's 8848m or 29029ft. This will be going up and down my stairs a total of 4424 times! I plan to complete this challenge from Friday 10th April - Sunday 12th April doing 3, 12 hour sessions going up and down once every 30 seconds continuously!

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"I will streaming the challenge through Facebook for support and so you can all share the event with me!

"The more I think about this, the more gargantuan it seems, but I wanted to do something worthy of such an amazing woman who has influenced and will continue to influence my life in so many ways.

"Mother to my wife, Nanna to my babies and all around legend to anyone who ever had the pleasure of meeting her.

"RIP Lil Mo we love you

"Thank you for any donations in advance."

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