Teachers and students at a local school collectively raced each other up more than a thousand steps to raise money for a worthy cause.
Many from the Rotorua Lakes High School community spent their Friday lunchtime running up sets of stairs to support local firefighters preparing to do the AucklandSky Tower Challenge.
Head girl Maggie Donovan, 17, said they wanted to support the firefighters in effort to raise money for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.
The proceeds from the school's challenge will go towards the local firefighters' fundraising effort.
Surrounded by a crowd, a student team raced against a teacher team, and collectively they did they equivalent amount of steps as the firefighters do at the Sky Tower.