English Man Set to Scale Two Mountains and Cycle 180 Miles in Tribute to Late Brother

What’s the most physically exhausting activity you have ever done? Perhaps it’s running a marathon or going on a long hike. Maybe you’ve cycled uphill for endless hours. However, that all fails in comparison to the feats of athletic ability we are talking about today. Luke Sidwell is pursuing an incredibly arduous journey for one of the most heartwarming reasons.

Luke Sidwell has long spoken about the pain he has felt after having lost his brother. Now, he intends to set out and complete a new challenge to honor his sibling’s memory. Luke is driven by his brother’s memory and a can-do spirit to take this journey on.

What Luke Sidwell Wants

Luke Sidwell intends to take on an epic climbing and cycling challenge to honor the death of his brother, Scott, who passed away from cancer last year. The challenge will raise money for Brain Tumour Research to fund sustainable research at dedicated centers in the UK. He has also set up a JustGiving page with the aim of raising £2,000 for Brain Tumour Research.

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Luke, who aims to climb two mountains and cycle 180 miles to honor Scott’s demise, believes that his brother was also his best friend. Luke plans on cycling between climbing Scafell Pike in England and Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). He plans to set out for his journey on September 7 and finish on September 10 – what would have been his brother’s 29th birthday.

Luke said he wanted to take on the challenge to do something his brother, an avid fitness enthusiast, would be proud of.

About Scott Sidwell

Scott, who owned a robotics engineering company, was a Warwickshire native. However, he lived in Fulham, London, with his wife. He was diagnosed with glioblastoma following blurred vision and painful headaches. While battling a very aggressive case of cancer, he eventually lost the ability to walk as the disease spread to his spine. He died in June 2022, aged 27. Despite grueling radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Scott succumbed to the cancer less than a year after his diagnosis.

Luke recalls how hard it was to see his brother suffer after his diagnosis. “Treatment was brutal on Scott. He had physical side effects but remained as positive as he could,” he said. He also claimed his brother was a lot fitter than himself, claiming he did marathons and mud runs while also being an ace at soccer.

Organizations like Brain Tumour Research have been calling on the government to increase the annual budget reserved to fight cancer to £35 million. The investment will improve survival rates among patients with leukemia and breast cancer. The organization says brain tumors kill more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer. So they’re calling for an increase in investment, which currently stands at just 1% of the national spend since records began in 2002.

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