Five A-Level students will tackle a 192-mile coast-to-coast walk in 13 days in August.

The group from The Samworth Church Academy, Mansfield, will walk from St Bees and the Irish Sea in Cumbria, to Robin Hoods Bay and the North Sea in North Yorkshire.

The walk, made famous by Alfred Wainwright, crosses three National Parks.

The students — Lauren Greasley, Will Smith, Megan Webster, Finn Hewitt and Keighley Hall — will set off on 20th August. They will be raising money for Mountain Rescue and also doing a plastic pick.

All plastic found will be turned into art to help raise awareness of plastic pollution and the damage it does to the oceans.

A school spokesman said: “Having the equipment, vehicles and support facilities to operate and potentially save lives is an expensive business.

“With no Government funding, just raising the money to operate each year, competing with other worthwhile causes, is a mammoth task.

“As an academy each year we run a lot of expeditions in mountainous regions and it is one of our missions to teach students how to be safe in the mountains.

“Knowing such a wonderful organisation like Mountain Rescue would be there if we needed them in an emergency helps us to be able to run our expeditions.”

All funds raised will go to Mountain Rescue — the students have raised funds to pay for the expense of the trip, which has been supported by the academy’s Opportunities Trust Fund.

To support the students go to www.justgiving.com/SamworthCoast2CoastChallenge2018