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An intrepid group of island explorers is looking for a final few members to join its team on a very special trek to a lost city.
So, if you’ve got a sense of adventure, enjoy exploring, meeting people, and helping support local causes, Autism Jersey could have just the thing for you.
In aid of the charity, later this year, a team of 31 brave souls will be taking on one of the most exhilarating challenges in the world – a trek to the ‘lost city’ of Machu Picchu in Peru. But, there are still three places left.
The departure will be on Thursday 17 October 2019 and will run through the half-term.
Pictured: The kind of character the trekkers might meet on their charity adventure in October.
There are a number of different routes to the city. The team from Jersey will be following one of the lesser-used paths – the Lares Valley route.
It joins the Inca Trail on the last day for the 3,000-step ascent to the Sun Gate, where trekkers get to see Machu Picchu for the first time. The ten-day trip is rated as ‘tough’ and described as ‘gruelling yet rewarding’.
In an internet poll in 2007, the site was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World and in 1983 was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's often referred to as the 'lost city' because it remained hidden from the Spanish invaders during the colonial period, and was only 'discovered' by American historian Hiram Bingham in 1911.
Pictured: Success in 2017 - the Autism Jersey Team on the summit of Mount Toubkai in Morocco.
Dr Helen Miles, the vice-chair of Autism Jersey who is joining the trek with her husband Richard, says: "Like the Kilimanjaro Trek in 2014 and Morocco in 2017, this trek will be a real adventure – an opportunity to challenge yourself to do something a little different to raise money for an important cause – a purpose-built centre that will improve services for people with autism in Jersey."
There are still a few months before the trek and, ahead of that time, the team is busy fundraising and training to meet their financial and fitness targets.
Recently, one fundraiser, Richard Mayo, hopped on a static bike in a St. Peter supermarket. Meanwhile, fundraiser Laura Kerr organised a charity car scavenger hunt.
The last trek, to the summit of Mount Toubkal in the High Atlas Mountains in September 2017, raised £24,600 for Autism Jersey.
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