She admits there was a nervous tear or two.
But now Jenna Brough, wife of Huddersfield Giants’ skipper Danny Brough, is relaxing after her most daunting charity challenge ever.
She was one of a record-breaking party who scaled the towering Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, played a game of rugby at the summit and raised more than £125,000 for charity.
But there were a few traumas along the way.
Three of the original 38-strong team were unable to make it to the summit because of altitude sickness and five more had to be stretchered off the mountain once they had completed the climb.
Jenna said: “It was the most daunting thing I have ever done and I never want to mess with altitude again.
“The night before the summit attempt I was in my tent crying and saying: ‘ I can’t go on’.
“But I was determined not to give in and I knew I would get there.”
The trekkers spent five days climbing Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity for the Steve Prescott Foundation. Each day they climbed ior up to eight hours which took its toll.
Jenna, the mother of two young boys William and Henry, says having climbed Ben Nevis and the Three Peaks she felt the “need to do something different.”
The Spectrum Kilimanjaro Challenge 2015 was to help support the Foundation. Each climber had to raise at least £4,000 for the three charities of the SPF: the Christie Hospital, Try Assist and the Oxford Transplant Foundation, and Jenna collected more than £4,600..
The climb was in the spirit of Steve Prescott, a family friend of the Broughs and much-loved and talented Rugby League player, who sadly died from a rare tumour in November 2013.
The rugby game at the summit of the 19,341ft mountain included former rugby stars Lee Briers, Adrian Morley, Neil Harmon and Barry McDermott and has been recognised as a world record for the highest-ever game.
Now Jenna is chilling out but she loved every minute of the trip.
It included a visit to see youngsters at a school in Tanzania and she said: “That was worth all the hard work, just to meet those kids”.
