A group of students hope to raise £70,000 for a charity by walking the Inca Trail in South America.

The 32 people who all attend the University of Westminster will be trekking up Machu Picchu in Peru.

All the money will go to Dig Deep, an organisation which provides access to clean water, sanitation and renewable energy for communities in Kenya.

They have already raised £29,000 and hope to raise the rest by August.

James Haughton, 30, the development studies student organising the trip, said the walk would be very difficult because of the weather conditions can change quite quickly.

He said: “I’m very excited but it be will like we have four seasons in one day.

“One minute it can be really cold, then scorching hot and next it can be really rainy.”

Last year Mr Haughton and 21 other students climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and raised more than £28,000 for Dig Deep.

The money built a borehole for 5,000 people in Ndanai, a community in South Western Kenya, which pumps clean water to five schools, a centre for children with learning disabilities and a health clinic.

The 30-year old added: “Doing Kilimanjaro was a real test of my fitness and makes this next trip a little less scary.”

People will be able to bungee jump 225ft from a mobile bungee set up at Harrow Campus of Westminster University on Monday April 2 to help raise funds.

There is a £25 registration fee and if jumpers fundraise £80 they pay nothing else towards their jump.

The group will be trekking from August first to 13 and they will all pay for the trip themselves.