On the hottest day, Ashlea managed to find snow!

WHILE Warrington basked in sunshine and one of the hottest May days for years, schoolgirl Ashlea Smith was hiking in snow.
The 15-year-old from Culcheth was climbing 4,411 feet up Ben Nevis – Britain’s highest mountain – to raise money for a good cause.
Ashlea, a pupil at Culcheth High School, was raising money to enable her to travel to Nepal to help rebuild a school destroyed by an earthquake in 2015.
She had already climbed Snowdon and Scarfell Pike so conquering Ben Nevis completed her Three Peaks Challenge – and meant that after three months of fundraising she will be able to go on the expedition.
In July she will join a party of 20 students who will go to Kathmandu with the Mother and Children Art Foundation (MCAF) a non-profit organisation dedicated to the health, education and employment of impoverished women and children in Nepal.
Ashlea said: “We will be working with the community as they re-build the school destroyed during the earthquake in 2015, as well as completing a five-day trek in Annapurna Conservation Area.”
She thanked a number of local businesses, friends and family who had sponsored her climb up Ben Nevis and her earlier fundraising efforts.
Donations can still be made via justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ashlea-smith-2
Ashlea is now collecting her sponsorship money and is making final preparations for her journey in July.