A PENISTONE doctor and dentist duo have raised £8,000 for charity by climbing Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro after a ten-day ordeal.
GP Dave Lindop, of Thurlstone, and Mark Bishop, of Millhouse Green, suffered altitude sickness at freezing temperatures and witnessed a dangerous fall when they trekked nearly 20,000 feet up Africa's highest mountain.
“Altitude sickness was like no headache I had ever known,” said the 41-year-old Mappleworth-based dentist. But Dr Lindop, 49, a GP at Penistone surgery for 20 years, was on hand to help:
“The conditions up there were gruesome so I was dishing out medication as required,” he said. “But we made it to the top and it was quite emotional — though if I’d shed a tear it would've frozen to my cheek.”
