AN ADVENTURER is embarking on an 800-mile trek across Europe to help refugees.

Sam Smith, 25, from Rodborough, is walking from Ljubljana in Slovenia to Mont Blanc to fundraise for the Refugee Community Kitchen.

Setting off on July 19 and due to finish on September 15, he has endured all climates from scorching heat, to downpours and snow.

"I've been scorched, soaked, ill, snowed on, met, made friends with or been harassed by a good cross section of wildlife and locals, mountains have been scaled and glaciers crossed," said Sam, who recently graduated from Cardiff University, on his fundraising page.

"The idea to do a walk like this has been in me as long as I can remember.

"It just grew and grew. Then being able to help in a small way, the people suffering right on our doorstep, became an added bonus of completing a personal goal.

"But more than that, now is a crucial time to show there are people in our increasingly isolated country that care about what happens in Europe and care about helping to ease human suffering, that we in part caused.

"We are still European in geography and responsibility, if not politically."

He has completed around 650 miles of the solo trek, in which he is sleeping wherever he can find for the night, raising around £400 for the Refugee Community Kitchen.

The community group was set up in the Autumn of last year to help provide fresh food and meals to refugees in camps at Calais and Dunkirk.

To support Sam visit his fundraising page at bit.ly/2bRZdOG.