Earlier this month, a team of 29 environmental staff completed 238 trips up the stairs of the 23-storey blocks at 50, 60 and 70 Kennishead Avenue in Glasgow, the equivalent of climbing the 8848-metre peak two times.

Each staff member walked up and down the stairs alone in 20-minute time slots across all three blocks so they could maintain social distancing.

A few tired legs – but thankfully no frostbite – helped the staff raise more than £1500 for Getting The Message Across (GTMA), a youth-led charity in the south of Glasgow which helps young people through grassroots football.

GHA environmental team leader Elliott Gibb came up with the idea.

He said: “GTMA does great work supporting young people in GHA communities and we really wanted to help.

“The height of Everest is equivalent to 118 trips up the stairs of a 23-storey block – and we thought it would be a fun way of raising money for a great cause.

“We actually completed 238 trips – twice the height of Everest – and raised £1515.

“Not sure what the view from the top of Everest is like – but it would be hard to beat the view from the top of the Kennishead flats!”

Elliott and a colleague handed over a cheque to GTMA this week.

The environmental teams at GHA have worked through lockdown keeping multi-storey sites clean and safe and helping deliver emergency food parcels to tenants in need.

Ethan Mcinally, founder of GTMA, said: “We’d like to thank Elliott and his team for their support. It will really help us continue our work across our communities to help young people through peer education.”