A Scots pensioner hiked 500 miles to raise funds for a cancer charity after he and his wife both battled the disease.Graham Reid, 72, from Glasgow, trekked the equivalent of Aberdeen to London across 40 days for Beatson Cancer Charity.
He took on the challenge after his wife's bowel cancer diagnosis in 2020 and his own lymphoma cancer diagnosis in 2022.He started his journey on September 9 last year when he flew into Paris and got a train down to Bayton.
As Glasgow Live reports, Graham then got on another train to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, stayed in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and set off a couple of days later.The walk started in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port which is in the Pyrénées, before going along the North Coast of Spain through the Rioja region, through Galicia, and then on to Santiago.
Graham walked between 15 and 20 miles every day and took 40 days to complete it.Graham’s work colleague, Lorraine Scott, encouraged him to fundraise for charity as part of the challenge and set up a JustGiving page for Graham.
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