Left to right: Lottie Evans, Marika Perkins and Sophie Fowler have signed up for the 2,000km Karma Enduro. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0931991)

A GROUP of mums are preparing to spend 10 days driving an old taxi across rough tracks and mountain roads in India to raise money for the sick and disadvantaged.

Lottie Evans, Sophie Fowler and Marika Perkins have signed up for the Karma Enduro, a 2,000km drive across southern India, in November. They will be driving a Hindustan Ambassador, the design of which has changed very little since it was launched as the Morris Oxford in Britain in the 1950s. They will travel in convoy with an ambulance and mechanics on standby.

Mrs Fowler, 39, and Mrs Evans, 40, decided to do another trip to raise money for charity after climbing both Kilimanjaro and Toubkal in Africa in the last two years.

Mrs Fowler said: ‘I saw an advert for the Karma Enduro in the Sunday Times and before we knew it we were on the phone and signed up.’

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