Our team of eight (very) amateur hikers are taking on ‘The Seven Sisters’, a spectacular 20km skyline walk across seven peaks in the Derryveagh Mountains, on Saturday 16th September to raise funds for youth mental health in Donegal. The hike will take in the ‘Seven Sisters’ which includes Errigal (751 m), Mackoght a.k.a. Little Errigal (555 m), Aghla More (584 m), Ardloughnabrackbaddy (603 m), Aghla Beg (564 m), Crocknalaragagh (471 m) and Muckish (666 m).

This is an all day hike and will take us 20 km across these seven peaks with over 1600m of ascent and 1700m of descent along the way.

All funds raised from this challenge will go towards funding Mind your Melon, a youth mental health campaign created by Connect Mental Health. Mind Your Melon aims to reach 13,000 young people in 27 secondary schools across Donegal. Connect Mental Health is a community mental health organisation promoting positive mental health in Donegal (CHY Number: 22776). Mind your Melon has been developed in partnership with Jigsaw Donegal and Foróige Donegal.

Mind your Melon will promote positive mental health & well-being and signposting of key services to young people through a programme of events, workshops, activities and interactive online content that:

- Promotes positive mental health

- Improves young people’s understanding of mental health and well-being, and associated protective and risk factors

- Increases awareness of youth mental health supports and services and how to access them

- Explores stigmatising attitudes to mental health

Meet the team:

Christopher 'Bear Grylls' Britton is half man, half mountain goat.

Conor ‘Grey Squirrel’ Kennedy has asked if can he wear his cycling lycra for the climb.

Jill 'K2' Kennedy can scale even the most daring soft plays.

Shane 'Sylvester Stallone' McLoone’s only training has been to rewatch ‘Cliffhanger’ 12 times.

Aisling 'Hike Life' McLoone thinks she’s Roz Purcell.

Shane ‘Sidewinder’ Kennedy has a unique climbing style.

Adrian 'Monty' McFadden bought his hiking boots yesterday, usually found walking the fairways of Bundoran Golf Club.

Ciaran 'Indiana Jones' McLoone has packed his whip.