The BT Red Nose Climb
Gary
As a member of one of Britain's biggest ever bands Gary Barlow's place among the music elite is secure.
Take into account his unprecedented success as a singer songwriter too and you have a member of the recording royal family on your hands.
That kind of stadium filling success was a million miles away from his early days in the mid 80s North West playing the Connah’s Quay Labour Party Social Club and the Frodsham Union Church Coffee Morning!
But an audition in 1990 at a Manchester club catapulted Gary into the big time and the Take That phenomenon was born.
Married to Dawn, Gary has three children, Dan, Emily and most recently of all Daisy - born on 14th January this year - just in time to see her Daddy take on Kilimanjaro!
I really can't wait for this to happen. It’s been quite a long time in the organising but now its almost here!
Altitude sickness is the biggest fear I guess – I’ve been skiing at around 2000 meters before but this is almost three time as high as that so it’s a real unknown quantity for all of us.
I think we will have a fantastic laugh, do something personally challenging and at the same time raise a load of money to help people beat malaria, which is a huge killer.
In terms of my experience doing anything like this – its pretty much zero. In fact I’m the most unlikely person in the world to attempt something like this - I hate camping and I love nice soft warm duvets. I can't believe I'm doing it in fact!
I’m also going to really miss GMTV in the morning – but seeing as we will have Ben Shephard with us I can get him to do it live for me!
Press play to watch this video and see how Gary feels about climbing Africa's tallest Mountain!
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