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 […]

From a tipi to a tumour

I’m Dana Miller (56ish), California boy. Bishop to be exact. My folks were climbers back in the 60’s/70’s so we were raised at the Buttermilks living in a Tipi : I suppose I started climbing as a kid getting dragged around by my folks but it wasn’t until college(1988), that I really found the passion […]

Newsletter #4 with SO MUCH NEWS

New Year, New-sletter! And there’s so much to tell you that we needed a bumper double edition!  We hope you agree it makes for an interesting read! We’ll be putting it out on social media of course, so please, share, SHARE, SHARE!! The more people we reach, the more awareness we raise and the more […]

Molly Thompson-Smith joins CAC Crew

Olympian and Team GB member Molly Thompson-Smith and our Trustee Lynn Robinson bumped into each other at the Kendal Mountain Festival this year. They got talking and one thing led to another… next thing you know Molly had agreed to become an Athlete Ambassador for CAC! Here’s what she has to say about her reasons […]

Cancer prevention. Lose the smokes

As a charity we often focus on research into cancer, and more recently into living with and beyond the disease. But the age old saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ also applies to cancer. So much physical and emotional pain (and expense to our stretched healthcare systems and the economy in general) could be avoided […]

Carols Against Cancer with Carmine de Grandis

Carmine de Grandis has been supporting and raising (lots of) funds for CAC for years now. We’re delighted to say we’ve made it official, and the ultra-trail mountain runner has joined us as an Athlete Ambassador. As is his tradition, at noon on December 22, despite the weather forecast, Carmine, his accordion and his band […]

Video: 10 years of climbing against cancer, now on YouTube!

We couldn’t let our 10th anniversary go by without putting together a video. It took a while, because a LOT has happened in 10 years and a LOT of people have been involved, so a LOT of editing was required to make something meaningful but that doesn’t go on for hours! There are flashbacks, borrowed […]

Welcome to our new Athlete Ambassador Nicole Berthod

Here’s how Switzerland’s Nicole Berthod describes herself on her Instagram account : IFMGA mountainguide 💃👠💅breastcancerwarrior & freespirit in ❤️ with life At the age of 31 and the peak of physical condition, Nicole received a breast cancer diagnosis. Her personal story is incredibly uplifting, and we urge you to read this blog article she wrote […]