Jens Alers' first Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) Mountain Challenge made him realise a change would be good.
“When I did this for the first time four years ago, I was 48,” said Alers, the Bermuda-based group director of Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement.
“I was out of shape but not overweight. I realised I needed to do a little more sport. That’s when I made a decision to lose some weight.