{"id":1766,"date":"2016-11-23T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewwickscreative.co.uk\/clients\/nsif-dev\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1766"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:21:25","slug":"joan-wiper-himalayan-challenge-behalf-christopher-tickle-fund-nsif","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewwickscreative.co.uk\/clients\/nsif-dev\/news\/joan-wiper-himalayan-challenge-behalf-christopher-tickle-fund-nsif\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Wiper &#038; her Himalayan challenge on behalf of The Christopher Tickle Fund for nsif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a narrow path no wider than the length of your foot.\u00a0 Now imagine that path and hundreds of others like it on an incline that would challenge the most nimble-footed of mountain goats and then imagine these same paths covered in snow and ice and others slippery with mud. The temperatures in Himalaya range from very hot by day to freezing cold at night. Now imagine trekking these same paths alone with four guides. Joan Wiper managed it! A very challenging two-week Trek in Himalaya covering over 55 miles and climbing to 3,200 metres, Joan\u2019s journey raised \u00a33709.75 on behalf of <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">nsif<\/span><\/strong> through The Christopher Tickle Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Alone in a tent at night, and warned not to venture out, because nocturnal leopards roam the Himalayas when night falls, Joan started a diary of events, which ran to fourteen pages. She has since sent the diary, including many amusing anecdotes, to all the donors on her just-giving page and has hopefully inspired others to follow in her footsteps and challenge themselves to raise further funds for spinal injury research.<\/p>\n<p>Joan\u2019s Trek raised money for The Christopher Tickle Fund, which raises money exclusively for <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">nsif<\/span><\/strong>. To date The Christopher Tickle Fund has raised close to \u00a370,000.<\/p>\n<p>Joan started her Trek in Himalaya on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> October and by pure coincidence awoke that morning in Delhi to Jordan Bone\u2019s broadcast charity appeal, on Radio 4 for <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">nsif<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 an encouraging and uplifting start to the Trek.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Joan for taking on this challenge and for helping those working to improve the lives of people suffering from spinal injury.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to all the very generous donors to Joan\u2019s Just Giving page &#8211; we know Joan was delighted with the support and so are we.<\/p>\n<p>The Christopher Tickle Fund and the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Keith Tickle has a continuous Just Giving<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/nsif-ChristopherTickleFund\"> page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1766","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joan Wiper &amp; her Himalayan challenge on behalf of The Christopher Tickle Fund for nsif - Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewwickscreative.co.uk\/clients\/nsif-dev\/news\/joan-wiper-himalayan-challenge-behalf-christopher-tickle-fund-nsif\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joan Wiper &amp; her Himalayan challenge on behalf of The Christopher Tickle Fund for nsif - Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Imagine a narrow path no wider than the length of your foot.\u00a0 Now imagine that path and hundreds of others like it on an incline that would challenge the most nimble-footed of mountain goats and then imagine these same paths covered in snow and ice and others slippery with mud. 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