For many of us, just walking to the summit of Arthur’s Seat can feel like taking on Mount Everest. Now a five-man team are set to face that challenge for real, by running up and down the Capital’s most famous hill for 24 hours straight – the equivalent of scaling the world’s highest mountain.

The challenge – being taken on by Alistair Walker, 24, Stuart Davies, 27, Sean Broadfoot, 25, Steve Hughes, 24, and Darren Leslie, 25 – is part of an effort to raise money for Cancer Research UK. The team, all PE students at Edinburgh University, plan to set off wearing headtorches at midnight on June 3 and keep going until their watches strike midnight again.