THE dizzy heights of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa is the latest challenge for a globe-trotting fundraiser.

Stewart Naylor is tackling the 5,896-metre mountain in Tanzania to raise £3,000 for Macmillan Cancer Relief.

The asset and patient environment officer with Tees and North-East Yorkshire NHS Trust will be putting on his hiking boots and backpack for the trek in September.

As well as the strenuous climb, he will have to contend with temperatures ranging from 30C during the day down to minus 30C at night during his seven-day challenge.

He said: "My aim this year is to raise £3,000 for this very worthy charity, and I urge organisations and individual people to support me. Most people will be touched by cancer in their lifetime, as I have been with an elderly aunt having recently contracted breast cancer."

To complete his goal, he has already started his training programme, which includes walking up as many hills as possible, including Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, and Highcliff, in Guisborough, as well as walking home once a week from St Luke's Hospital, in Middlesbrough, to Guisborough.

Mr Naylor is no stranger to trekking for charity, and in 2003 completed a nine-day Iceland challenge, raising £2,300 for Macmillan Cancer Relief. To sponsor Mr Naylor, ring 0790 9993079.