DETERMINED Newport-based property auctioneer Paul Fosh remains cool about the challenge he has set himself to complete the toughest endurance event in the world.

But Paul now says he needs to get even colder.

The owner of Paul Fosh Auctions has entered The Likeys 6633 Ultra 2015 Arctic Ultra, which is taking place in March next year.

The auctioneer is looking for someone, or perhaps a business, with a large industrial walk-in freezer in which he can put himself and also his cold weather gear to the ultimate test.

Paul has set his sights on completing the gruelling 120/350 mile challenge to raise £15,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

His main sponsors for the charity event are HSJ Accountants, Quality Solicitors Rubin Lewis O’Brien, Paul Fosh Auctions, Rightmove/Agent’s Giving and Auction Finance.

He said training for the infamous event is going to plan other than that he needs to test himself in sub zero temperatures.

Paul said: “I will be encountering temperatures of -30c and the possibility of snow blizzards, ice floes in The Likeys 6633 Ultra and having to fend for myself the entire time.

“I’d like to see what it’s like at those temperatures and the only way I can think I can do that at home is by getting inside an industrial freezer.

“I’m hoping perhaps one of the large supermarket distribution centres may be able to help as I know that they have huge freezers in which they store perishable and frozen goods at sub zero temperatures.”

A keen runner and general outdoor sportsperson, the married father to four Paul, aged 48, who lives in Monmouth, has signed up for what the organisers, Likeys of Brecon, describe on their website as 'quite possibly the toughest race of its kind on the planet'.

Paul will be one of just 25 people taking part in the challenge which will see them cover at least 120 miles, but potentially up to 350 miles, in the Yukon, northern Canada, almost entirely within the Arctic Circle pulling all the equipment they need behind them on a sled, or ‘pulk’.

The event has been run on six occasions and in that time only eleven people have completed the 350 mile course.

Anyone who can help Paul in his quest to find a freezer is asked to contact him by email paul@paulfoshauctions.com or call 01633 254044.

To sponsor Paul visit http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/PaulFosh and also take a look at www.6633ultra.com