A FATHER-of-three raised almost £6,000 for a children’s charity after completing the ‘experience of a lifetime’ climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.

Chris Waddington, 44, spent five days climbing the highest free-standing mountain in the world to raise money for the Rainbow Trust.

Chris, a business leader at Unison Engine Components, in Hapton, wanted to raise money for the charity, which supports terminally ill children and their families after losing his daughter Amy when she was just four minutes old in 1992.

“I’ve wanted to raise money for the charity because you can’t even begin to think what people must go through when they know their child is terminally ill,” he said.

“We didn’t know what was going to happen to Amy but for families who know what is going on it must be terrible.

“You can’t even begin to put it into words.”

Chris, from Rosegrove, Burnley, began training in March and completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks and the National Three Parks.

But his highlight was walking from Goodison Park to the Etihad Stadium a week before he set off at the start of October.