For anyone wishing
to complete the Three Peaks Challenge read Richard Walsh's
account as he raised a staggering £570 for our charity
this September!
We managed to
complete the '24 hour three peak challenge' in 23hrs 14mins!
We were very fortunate in that the weather was good to us
throughout each mountain.
Traffic was also
kind and we only encountered a few diversions, traffic jams,etc.
The actual climbing
part was obviously the hard part as we had to set a good pace
unaware of how long each climb would take us. We ended up coming
down Ben Nevis in the dark with our headtorches on and after the
6 hour drive to Scafell Pike ended up climbing that at 3:50am!
Fatigue was starting to kick in by the time we arrived at Snowdon
but we knew we had to press on with 4hrs 30mins left on the clock!
Snowdon proved to be tough going with a very steep ascent but
after spending 10-15mins at the summit decided to make sure there
were no last minute hitches and start the descent!
I must admit that it was a lot harder than I expected and it really
drained everything out of me at some points. But I was very happy
and proud to have done it in the end considering the average climb
for each mountain was 6 hours!