A picture speaks a thousand words and for one man it is plane to see the dedication and effort he has put in to helping raise money for a mental health charity.

Attempting to reach 152 summits is enough for most people to accomplish in a lifetime let alone a week.

But, feeling passionate about men's mental health Ross Jenkin wanted to really challenge himself and try to raise £15,000 for charity.

Suffering from mental health problems, Ross understands the difficulty faced by men and has spent years finding ways to tackle his own demons.

Setting off o the challenge with the support of more than 50 people he started with the Paddy Buckley Round in Snowdonia, Wales, then go to Northern Ireland for the Dennis Rankin Round, then back to Scotland for the Ramsey Round and finishing on home territory to do the Bob Graham Round.

Unfortunately as a result of the weather he was unable to complete the first round, Charlie Ramsay, but did 81km with 7000m of height gain and was on course to get 22hrs 30 minutes. The next stage the Denis Rankin round he managed to complete in under 20 hours and 40 minutes the Paddy Buckley was completed in about 37 hours. Epic truly epic.

It was in this leg he found out why the full challenged had not been completed before.

He said: "The pain and suffering was unbelievable, during the whole event my wife was my rock.

"It has been trying and stressful and hard to stay positive but with out my support team I wouldn't have been able to get as far as I did."

Thinking back to when the thought first came to mind he said:" I did wonder why no one had taken on the challenge in a week but I know now.

"But you can't get by if you don't challenge yourself.

"I have suffered from depression over the years and have been to some really dark places, as a police officer you see some hard things to deal with but fell running has been my therapy.

"When I'm having a bad day I know I need to get out for a run even my family will tell me to go for a run if they can see me not myself."

Throughout lockdown the policeman has spent his time training and building up to the mammoth task ahead.

Mr Jenkin said: "I'm doing this for multiple reasons, I'm turning 40 in 2020 so this is a mid-life crisis of sorts.

" I want to do something to raise some money for some causes which mean a lot to me, and when I thought of this as a challenge I couldn't get it out of my head so I simply have to do it.

"I also suffer from depression myself so by doing this I hope to encourage others to do something which helps their own mental health and more than anything I'm promoting talking about your problems.

Talking about how he felt through the challenge he said: "I started well and thoroughly enjoyed the route for leg one although there was a near miss when I nearly broke my leg but all was well.

At the end of leg one, at Fersit, I felt good but could have been better I was still running well.

"Leg two was great, no pain, no cramp, good running and I got to the end feeling much fresher than I started.

"I start up leg three and the first climb was fast and felt easy but the second climb was a little different. We battled our way to the summit and descended. The wind was insane it was not safe. We called it and started a descent.

"This was the only decision and we could have done nothing else but it was pretty devastating.

"I arrived back after a long quiet descent having cried a fair few tears and was greeted by the support from who ran ahead to give me some space and the road support."

To support Ross and CALM go to https://tinyurl.com/yxa2nbt5