A wildlife photographer has raised £27,000 after battling through snow and ice to scale Africa's highest peak and running two marathons in one week – all with a 30lb tiger suit strapped to his back.

Paul Goldstein, 49, of Pelham Road, Wimbledon, set off on the Brighton Marathon last week before jumping on a plane to embark on a five-day climb of Mount Kilimanjaro before returning to complete the London Marathon on Sunday.

The gruelling challenge saw Mr Goldstein battle some of the worst conditions in 25 years to climb the 8,390m mountain and running 53 miles while wearing the aluminium framed tiger "suit" in support of his Worth More Alive III campaign to save the Bengal tiger.

Mr Goldstein said: "From the moment we started we were eight hours behind so we really struggled to catch up."

He added: "It was much harder than I expected.

"Marathons are a known quantity but Kilimanjaro - I have never experienced anything like that before.

"It was the snow and the fact the slope is normally about minus 5 or 8 so it is frozen, but it was about 2 degrees so it was very difficult to walk up."

On returning to take part in the London Marathon he said: "It was fantastic.

"The support we got was absolutely overwhelming."

A total of £27,000 has already been raised for the Friends of Conservation charity project in Bandhavgarh in India which works to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.

Travel company Exodus, Mr Goldstein’s employers, pledged to donate £2 every time someone tweeted having seen him in his tiger suit on TV during the London Marathon.

For more information or to make a donation visit facebook.com/exodustravels, justgiving.com/worthmorealive3, or you can donate £1 to £10 by texting LEFT59 followed by the amount you wish to donate to 70070.