After a friend’s son was diagnosed with cancer, one trekker is taking on a mountain of a challenge once again to raise money for charity.

Weymouth man Kelvin Wey, 37, is putting his best foot forward to tackle Wales’ highest mountain for Cancer Research after a friend’s son was diagosed with a rare type of blood cancer.

Despite having limited mountaineering experience, last year, Kelvin and his brother Robert, 34, took on Ben Nevis for the British Heart Foundation after his friend Matt Newman died suddenly.

Over Easter weekend the pair will once again be lacing up their hiking boots to climb 3,560ft to reach the top of Snowdon in North Wales.

“I’m chose Cancer Research as cancer affects nearly everyone you know in some way. My friend’s son Kyle is 13 and he has Myelodysplastic Syndrome which is a rare type of blood cancer. He’s the reason I’m doing it,” Kelvin said.

Lessons were learnt from the Ben Nevis trek, Kelvin said, and this time around he would be taking extra energy snacks with him and doing more training to prepare. So far he has been preparing for the big hike by cycling and walking to and from his job on Portland every day.

“When we climbed Ben Nevis, as we got to the top a storm hit. We were being hit with hail stones that were the size of golf balls. After that challenge I ended up with huge blisters over my hands and feet - My legs just seized up and I couldn’t walk for five days.

“I think Snowdon will be easier but at this time of year anything could happen so it’s going to be fun. I think it’s more about the mindset. My brother says i have a death wish but I think the fear makes you push yourself even more,” he said.

If simply climbing Snowdon was not challenge enough, Kelvin said, weather permitting, the pair will attempt the most difficult route up the mountain, via the Crib Goch Ridge – described as a ‘knife-edged’. The thing I’m most worried about is leaving my lunch box behind,” he said.

He added this would by no means be the pair’s last hiking adventure as he hoped to take on Scafell Pike next year – the tallest mountain in England and the last of the UK’s biggest three peaks he has to conquer.

Kelvin hopes to raise £500 for charity. To sponsor him see fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/kelvins-giving-page-2.