This won't be easy. We'll be at an average altitude of 6,000 ft above sea level, rising to more than 9,000 ft in a series of daily challenges, so you'll need to be reasonably fit.

Couch potato? Start shaping up now because physical performance at that altitude requires real stamina and mental strength. In short, our participants will be putting their bodies through it in order to help raise money. They need their bumps feeling, frankly.

If you think you have the bottle, legs and lungs and would like to have a go whilst raising money for a great cause, please email Dougal Paver paver@paversmith.co.uk or contact him on 0151 239 5001.

Here's who's been mad enough to sign up:

Gary Townsend

Gary is Head of Human Resources at the City's top football club, and has an equally challenging role as Chairman of Everton Tigers, Merseyside's first professional basketball team. Gary's arrival on the team thus completes the theme of sporting excellence that we have. Having been used to dealing with the tall basketball team all season, the heights of the Pyrenees holds no worries.

Stephen Fell

Stephen is Head of I.T. at Everton and he will be invaluable in the Pyrenees when we need satnav assistance and all our Blackberries fail. Stephen's main reason for doing the trek is, of course, not only to support Claire House but also for personal achievement and so that he can look "muy bonito" on his forthcoming wedding day at Goodison Park! The biggest incentive of all though - "the beer when we're finished" - clearly in many ways; this is his swan-song. (NB - Cerveza, amigo).

Dougal Paver

Veteran of the first Pyrennean trek and proof positive that you don't need to be a finely honed athlete to succeed. Last year he demonstrated his linguistic capabilities by murdering the Spanish language at every opportunity, leaving not a few waiters perplexed as to why there was a helicopter in his soup. In his defence, his day job as MD of PR consultants Paver Smith means he hasn't got time to brush up on much more than the menu at Piccolino and Everton's fixture list.

Martyn Best

Another Pyrennean veteran, Martyn's fully-repaired knee should withstand the battering this time, having taken a dim view of some of the rocky descents last year. Martyn's day job sees him take a hands-on role with his three principle investments at Paver Smith, The Purple Wine Co and Document Direct, and when he's not up to his eyes in spreadsheets he'll usually be found at Goodison Park or with his lovely baby girl, Grace.

Neal Maxwell

Pugnacious, humorous and terrier-like, Maxwell is not a bloke to shirk a challenge. All the more impressive when he admits, half-way up the back wall of a 1,200 foot corrie, that he's scared of heights. He brings the same gritty determination to his role as MD of Aztec Interiors and will be in the thick of whatever action comes our way in Spain, of that you can be sure.

Richard Nutter

Richard's week is dominated by the machinations of European funding as head of the EU's Objective One programme for Merseyside. Weekends are a different matter: he's a Munro bagger, working his way through all 284 Scottish peaks one by one. Expect him to bring to bear his mountaineering skills on our motley crue, thereby helpfully plugging the gap left by the rest of us.

Bretta Davies

Bretta brings not a little feminine charm to proceedings but doesn't lack for steel when it comes to treks like this. Now crafting a new - and lucrative - career in house-building, the blues among our contingent are looking forward to the sound of Bretta's mobile phone Z-cars theme tune wafting down the valley. Sure to put a spring in our steps.

Lee Gilmore

By the look of him, the fittest of the bunch and sure to be legging it up the mountains at a rate of knots. Lee's day job as a commercial manager with Barclays sees him doing deals a-plenty, but that clearly hasn't stopped him staying on top of this here fitness malarkey. Might be worth tapping him up to learn the secrets of his fitness regime (which, to be fair, has never seemed to get in the way of the odd pint or two).

Ron Hutchinson

This man has climbed more mountains than Soft Joe, but then he is one of Claire House's top fundraising staff as well as being a good egg of some repute. A former military man and one-time batman to Lord Leverhulme, the boy Hutch is both a wellspring of great advice and great yarns. From Stockport, he's our token woollyback and proof-positive of our equal opportunities policy in action.