Team RWC to cycle from Biarritz to Barcelona for The Oscar Foundation

Will climb the Pyrenees

A team of employees from RWC are cycling over 650km from Biarritz in France to Barcelona in Spain, climbing a total ascent of 12,700m as they pass through the Pyrenees, in aid of The Oscar Foundation.

The team of 11, led by Gary Tuffield, head of European intermediary distribution and co-founder of The Oscar Foundation, will embark on the challenge on 8 October, starting in Biarritz and plan to complete the challenge in five days. The 380-mile route goes straight over the Pyrenees and the team will climb eight mountains, three of which top out at over 2,000 metres. The range has a total ascent of 41,682ft/12,700m (one and a half times the height of Everest). Team RWC are doing this challenge to raise money for the continued management of Oscar's Home, an orphanage it helped to buil...