MORE daring climbers, mountain bikers, bungee jumpers and runners have entered the contest to find York’s Adventurer of the Year.

The Press and York’s new outdoor equipment retailer, GO Outdoors, launched a competition last month to discover the city’s most adventurous person.

We asked readers to send in pictures of themselves enjoying an outdoor “adventure” and explain why they think they should win the title.

The winner will receiving £250 of store vouchers and a plaque will be installed there marking their status.

• A number of strong entries have been received, and today we can reveal two of the latest:

Dave Tew, 29, of York city centre, says he has trained at a Thai Boxing camp in Thailand, done one of the world’s highest bungee jumps – Versasca Dam in Switzerland, used in the James Bond film Goldeneye – and roughed it away from the tourist trail in Kenya for seven weeks.

But closer to home, he often packs a bag and goes running by himself for up to 30 miles in the Peaks, Lakes, Moors or Dales, and has run the Yorkshire Three Peaks, twice in just over five hours, and completed the national Three Peak Challenge in just over 23 hours.

He said he plans to tackle the Welsh 3000s – 25 miles up and down 15 peaks – unsupported in under ten hours, although these plans had been put on hold after he recently broke an ankle.

• Gary Osguthorpe, 48, of Strensall, helped to organise a walk across Yorkshire’s Three Peaks to raise funds for paralysed York mother Debbie Plowman, and says he has also taken part in mountain bike riding, rock climbing and mountaineering in many places across the world, including the North York Moors, the Lakes, Scotland, the Isle of Skye, Wales, Spain, the French and Swiss Alps and Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada in America.

“I am booked to climb in The Swiss Alps this July, the main aim being to climb The Matterhorn,” he said.

• The deadline for entries is Friday, April 29. A shortlist will then be drawn up by judges from GO Outdoors and The Press, from which a winner will be selected.

• To enter, email a picture of yourself embarking on your adventure to mike.laycock@thepress.co.uk or post your entry, marked Adventurer Of The Year competition, to Mike Laycock, The Press, 7686 Walmgate, York Y01 5YN, and tell us why you believe you deserve to be crowned York’s Adventurer Of The Year.