A GREAT North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) pilot will undertake a 50-mile run from Caldbeck to Cartmel.

Owen McTeggart, from Kendal, is taking on the Lakes in a Day challenge on October 8 to raise money to support the charity’s Pride of Cumbria aircraft.

Mr McTeggart said: “The event will be taking place at the back end of the year after the summer months, so hopefully the weather won’t have an effect on the run. I’d like to see nice clear skies.”

The 43-year-old will be passing through locations in the Lake District which he would normally visit as part of his day job – airlifting seriously ill and injured patients. In 2015 alone, GNAAS flew 455 missions across Cumbria.

He said: “GNAAS attend a lot of incidents across Cumbria, the incidents vary from walkers, runners, paragliders and many others and it is no stranger to us to have to land on the fells. I will pass some places that we regularly attend like Windermere, Ambleside and I will run over Helvellyn.

“This event is a good opportunity for me to see the fells in a positive way whilst raising funds for such a vital public funded charity.”

Mandy Drake, head of fundraising at the charity, said: “To have our own crew out there undertaking extreme challenges such as this, all to raise money for the air ambulance, just shows how much they believe in what we are doing.”