Some time ago I told you how I found my passion for climbing in a very difficult time. My mother got seriously ill with cancer in 2016, died, and that’s when I got into climbing. https://climbersagainstcancer.org/story/climbing-puts-a-smile-on-your-face/ Sometimes I wonder how much a person actually has to endure. On the wall I am free of all […]
Phil 04/01/1970 to 24/02/2022 Phil was diagnosed with bladder cancer in February 2021. After 3 months of chemotherapy from April to June 21, major surgery which brought complications in August 2021, 6 weeks of radiotherapy in Sept to Oct 2021 followed by a brief period of what felt like recovery prior to Christmas, Phil’s health […]
I’m from Italy, I was born in Turin in 1995, I am 26 years old. I suffer from hemiparesis on the left side of the body left in me as a complication of a brain cancer which I fell ill at the age of 6. In 2001, immediately after the diagnosis, I was treated at […]
Having always been an outdoorsy, mountain walking, snow sporting kinda kid, it came as a bit of a shock when I was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer in 2008 aged 16. At a stage in life where I should have been fighting with my parents or a boy, I was fighting for my life […]
My name is Vanessa, 39 years old, I am a Paraclimber from Karlsruhe, Germany. In the worst weeks of my life, I find out one of the most beautiful sport for me: climbing. In the summer of 2016 my mother became terminally ill with cancer. The whole body was already covered with metastases. There was […]
I started climbing about 6 months before my dads stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. Climbing gave me a chance to spend time with my best buddy and chat about everything whilst working out some stress on the wall. My dad went on for 10 months after his diagnosis, watched my sister get married, then watched […]
We found out last year that Dads bowel cancer (that he had been cleared of 12 months earlier) had returned, this time in his bowel. We were told it was terminal and he would have 12 months if he was lucky. I wasn’t coping too well when a friend suggested an afternoon at a local […]
THANKS JOHN . Thank you John for CAC, for giving us the will to climb, to sweat, to not give up, to move on, to look forward in life. In that famous spring of 2012, when you put yourself on the line, you had me emotional already. Brain cancer kept me from living, climbing, but […]
There you are, cruising up the final pitch after a perfect day up in the alpine. The afternoon sun warms your bare arms, and a smile plays on your lips as you savour the effortless flow of the climb. Everything feels right. You move without hesitation, trusting your body to dance up the rock like […]
Climbing has been an increasingly important part of my life since I started back in 2012. It’s crazy how the life path I was on has been completely diverted by my passion (obsession?) for climbing. Back then, I was in university working on my bachelor’s degree in engineering, and I was not athletic or interested […]
Climbers Against Cancer is more than a charity…… It’s a colourful movement of climbers from all over the world, young and old, who want contribute to the fight against cancer. I met John Ellison during one of the World Cups in Birmingham. I was present in Birmingham as IFSC Secretary General in the role of […]
Hey there everybody. Probably best described as a climbers’ mum and (rubbish) climbing mum ! I ‘met’ John Ellison over the phone when CAC was jut getting off the ground and was happy to help out, especially with communications in French. When I met him in person I was even more blown away by his […]
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