Talisker Drinkers In Whisky Trek.  Add/Read Comments

Diageo, owners of the malt whisky Talisker, and the Woodland Trust have teamed up to offer consumers the chance to trek to the home of the malt in the Isle of Skye and raise money to plant thousands of trees.

The promotion will appear in the Saturday Telegraph (should be on the cover this weekend) and Financial Times and will select 200 applicants to join the likes of Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Tom Avery on the first Talisker Trek. This will be held in May 2006. They aim to raise funds to plant 250,000 tress across the UK over the next three years. Each participant will be asked to raise �500 of personal sponsorship money to support this target.

There is a dedicated flash-based website - or soon will be as it wasn't working when I checked - that details Skye via an interactive map. I hope they have better weather than when I was there; digging peat, even for 'educational purposes', in a freezing snowstorm ain't that fun!