Marks Mountain Walk
Report from East Anglian Daily Times
Thursday April 3rd 2008
A charity walk is taking place in memory of a cancer specialist at Ipswich Hospital who recently lost his life to the disease.
Mark Sargeantson, 55, of Kettleburgh near Framlingham, will walk the length of the Pyrenees Mountains – 538 miles – in memory of Dr. John LeVay, who died last month.
Hoping to raise £50,000 from the walk for the Cancer Campaign in Suffolk, Mr. Sargeantson hopes to complete the trek from the Atlantic Coast to the Mediterranean in 50 days from June 1st.
Dr. LeVay worked as an oncologist at Ipswich Hospital and formed the cancer charity in 1998 with former Ipswich Town star Jason Cundy. The Cancer Information Centre at the hospital is now to be named after him.
Mr. Sargeantson a partner in Fenn Wright, Chartered Surveyors, chairman of the Ipswich Building Society and a close friend of John LeVay’s said ‘Dr. LeVay was an extremely able, modest, kind man but I did not know him as a doctor, I am pleased to say. But everything that I have heard about him says that he was a wonderful dedicated man who did a tremendous amount to raise the standards of cancer care at Ipswich Hospital’
A runner with the Framlingham Flyers, Mr. Sargeantson will climb the equivalent of five times the height of Everest on the trek along the GR10 hiking path in France.
UPDATE
Mark finished the Walk on Sunday 20th August after 50-odd very gruelling days. Pictured here very relieved at the end of the Trail!
If you have not yet done so and would like to make a donation towards Mark's tremendous achievement, go to www.justgiving.com/marksmountainwalk or contact Cancer Campaign in Suffolk direct, all the details are on the contact page of this website.