A warm welcome to our newest ambassadors
We’re thrilled to welcome — and say a heartfelt THANK YOU — to the newest additions to the Climbers Against Cancer (CAC) ambassador family. Our community continues to grow with inspiring individuals who embody the spirit of resilience, support, and passion. We’re proud to introduce: Brooke Raboutou – Professional climber, Olympian, and now history-maker. Brooke […]
Welcome to our podCACt!
A podCACt?! Yes, a podCACt – a podcast about CAC! It’s obvious when you think about it! This is a world exclusive (for CAC anyway!) and this first one is a far-reaching discussion. It covers a whole range of topics to do with our charity, as discussed by our Trustee Dominic Oughton and Ambassador Finlay […]
Living beyond cancer in Calgary – donation update
Our ‘Living beyond cancer’ projects are great at giving us feedback! Remember we told you about Rocheplane medical centre’s climbing sessions, for which we recently received lots of positive comments from participants? Here’s a donation update on two projects we supported in Calgary that have a particular focus on young people. The PEER programme Carolina Chamorro Vina, […]
Everest Challenge for Nepal’s children
It’s June again, and that means the Everest Challenge is back! Climb the height of Everest by fingertips, feet or bike; on rock, trail, road or plastic, to save children’s lives in Nepal. In life we’re all climbers! Story Training cancer doctors in Nepal Every penny raised will go to Nepal where it will be […]
Melanoma: May Awareness Month
Melanoma is one of the cancer types we raise awareness for in May. It is a kind of skin cancer that starts in the melanocytes. These are cells that make the pigment – melanin – that gives skin its colour. Over 9 out of 10 cutaneous melanoma cases in the US (for example) are caused by ultraviolet […]
‘Ca (Roche)plane pour moi’
Proving the benefits of climbing when living with and beyond cancer. You may remember we made a grant to the Centre de Rocheplane in France as part of our ‘Climbing Beyond Cancer’ initiative last year. Docteur Aline Mercan has been keeping us up to date with feedback from her patients – if you need a […]
CAC News #5 out now!
The latest newsletter – edition #5 – is out!
April Awareness: testicular cancer
Time to talk about the most common cancer in men aged 15-44.
February cancer awareness: gall bladder/bile duct cancer
In our series of articles about the different types of cancer, we move on to two rare but agressive forms of the disease, and whose awareness month is February. Gallbladder cancer The gallbladder is part of the digestive system. It is a small pouch that stores bile, a fluid that helps to break down fats […]
Fibre is your friend
It reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and colon cancer – while keeping our gut microbiome and brain healthy. Yet we all eat far too little of it. What could it be? Fibre! And while 30g a day is the target, most of us are falling short. We know. We’ve said […]
Merch’ Monday – purchase with a purpose
Back in the early days of CAC, we were about selling as many T-shirts as possible to raise as much money as we could to fight cancer. That’s still our primary aim. But as time has gone on, we’ve also started to look more carefully at WHAT we’re selling in terms of our impact on […]
Climbers Against CancerS
Sometimes we think we should have called ourselves Climbers against Cancers, plural, because there isn’t just one type. In fact, there are more types of cancer than months in the year, which is quite a depressing thought! There are some variants depending on what country you are in, but if we look at the list […]
