Like here in the United States, the nursing shortage is spreading across Canada, and some residents are going to great lengths to lend a hand.

Allan Muller, 61, an investment advisor in Calgary, is climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro—the highest peak in Africa—to support local nursing students. Friends and family are setting up a scholarship in his name to help single-parent nursing students at the University of Calgary. Muller has a history of supporting nurses, most notably that his rotary club donated $20,000 to establish a fund that provides $1,000 annually to a second-year nursing student.

Muller’s trek is similar to the one completed by Patrick Hickey, a nursing professor at the University of South Carolina. As featured on StressedOutNurses.com, Hickey climbed Mt. Everest to set up a scholarship at his school.

Sources: University of Calgary press release and The Calgary Sun