Katie Donegan, 33, is preparing to play a game of football close to the top of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. It is all part of a scheme called Equal Playing Field, which is intended to increase awareness of women in sport.
This will be the first time a football game has been played at the peak of a mountain, ensuring that those taking part will also secure a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the game played at the highest altitude.
Before they even get started, the players will need to trek 5,895 metres with equipment such as footballs and goalposts. The chosen playing field is a sizeable plateau, which has a surface with a similar texture to sand.
Speaking to the Basingstoke Observer, Katie said:
“A lot of women and girls don’t play sport into adulthood, and this is an opportunity to be role models for all those women and say ‘yes you can carry on playing sport and doing things’.”
The match will take place during June, and poster printing is often used to promote events like this.