A hardy charity fundraiser has been walking through Dumfries and Galloway in just a pair of swimming trunks.
Michael Cullen, known as Speedo Mick, reached Moffat and Lockerbie at the weekend in his “final ever stomp”.
The 58-year-old is walking a 1,000 mile trek from John O’Groats to Land’s End in a pair of blue speedos to raise cash for mental health and suicide prevention.
Michael, from Liverpool, has raised more than £800,000 for the Speedomick Foundation in the last seven years by doing similar challenges and swimming the English Channel in 2014.
He said: “I have suffered from mental health most of my adult life and still do suffer from it to this day.
“The donations from this walk will be going to our very first Speedomick Foundation mental health project.
“It’s something I have dreamt of doing for a long time now and it will be a dream come true for me to be able to give back to my community and support people who are suffering from mental health.
“Alongside our fundraising on this charity walk we will also be gifting grants to small grass root’s charities that support mental health, disadvantaged young people and homelessness.
“These charities are vital in and for our communities and they are usually run by the people in those communities. Because of this they usually know what support is needed whether it be food, shelter, mentoring health through sports, suicide prevention mental health safeguarding and much more.
“I am very proud to say that the SpeedoMick Foundation donated a massive quarter of a million pounds to small charities on my last walk.
“Essentially the SpeedoMick Foundation is redistributing the donations that I received on my fundraisers by putting it back into the communities of those who supported me and donated to my challenges which is only right.
“It is such an amazing achievement from a man who not so long ago had lost his dignity, his pride, his home, his family and any hope.
“I have all that back in my life today because I received support and I hope to we can give that back through the SpeedoMick Foundation and our new mental health projects.”
After his stop in Lockerbie on Sunday he faces another 700 miles left to walk and two more mountains to climb in this cold weather conditions.
Donations can be made here: www.gofundme.com/f/the-final-stomp.
