Gary Barlow Plans Second Charity Adventure

At the ripe age of 39, Gary Barlow is up for anything – even if it’s hiking to the North Pole. For charity, of course.

Don’t underestimate the Take That singer though. Barlow raised more than 1.3 million euros for Comic Relief for leading a team of nine celebrities to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the fourth highest freestanding mountain in the world.

The Spring 2012 trip will raise money for BBC Sport Relief, a charity in the UK that has a history of attracting celebrities, such as David Walliams swimming across the English Channel and Eddie Izzard's 43 marathons in 52 days.. BBC Sport Relief incorporates physical activity into fundraisers like their Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile and uses the money for disadvantaged people around the world, whether they be homeless children or people in disease-infected conditions.

The details of the trip have yet to be worked out, but Arctic experts are expected to help out the group. Barlow plans to start recruitment this year and has already started to prep himself for the week-long venture. Contactmusic.com reports that Barlow and his band have banned alcohol at their concerts.

“Gary loves a challenge, so as soon as he finished the Kilimanjaro trip he was working out what to do next. There was talk of climbing Everest but that’s a seriously tough exercise,” a source tells The Sun. “Getting to the North Pole is not exactly easier but it is more do-able and takes less time.”