Although a limited amount of research has been conducted in this area of tourism. Bleasdale’s (2000) work provides a useful into the motives of charity challenge participants. Bleasdale carrired out a survey on people who were doing a trek in Nepal in aid of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. A total of 31 trekkers completed the survey. Either during or directly after the charity trek. The results revealed that people had divergent reasons for taking part in this charity challenge trip, and these reasons include: