# Charity vice president raises £50,000 in sponsored mountain climb

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/10/11/charity-vice-president-raises-50000-sponsored-mountain-climb/
- Published: 2004-10-11T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Neville Shulman OBE, vice president of children’s charity NCH, has scaled the four
biggest peaks in Ecuador, and in doing so raised almost £50,000 for an NCH school
in Chipping Norton.
Neville has been a Vice President of NCH for 15 years. He paid
all of his expedition costs personally so that 100% of the donation will go directly
to NCH.

Over ten days Neville scaled the mountains of Pichincha (15,729 ft), tackling its
two summits; Iliniza Norte (16,815 ft) and

Chimborazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador at 20,700ft. He had to abandon his summit
of Cotopaxi (meaning ‘broken neck’) before he

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reached the top, due to adverse weather conditions.

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