Death Valley charity bike ride

Oct 14 2008 by David Himelfield, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A HUDDERSFIELD mother is to cycle across one of the world’s most inhospitable places for charity.

Plucky Virginia Roberts, 39, of Thongsbridge, is to ride 263 miles across Death Valley in California – one of the hottest and driest regions on Earth.

Miss Roberts, a nurse practitioner, will join 17 other cyclists raising cash for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), which removes landmines from former war zones.

So far Virginia has raised more than £2,100, but she hopes to gain a further £850 on the five-day tour which starts at Beatty Junction on November 9 and finishes at Las Vegas.