Friday 24 th September 3 PEAKS CHALLENGE 2010 by the end of the challenge I had taken 70,000 steps and walked 22 miles ,Climbed 3 mountains with a combined height of 3407 metres ,travelled 475 miles ........................but the biggest success to come out of this very tough challenge was the fact my team of 6 raised £9,000 for the charity Sense:) Our journey begins leaving Glasgow airport and travelling to Ben Nevis
We arrive at Ben Nevis and here we are getting ready to climb our first mountain ! Our climb begins ..................... Nearly at the summit .................. Ben Nevis summit ,first mountain done up/ down in 5 hours and 45 minutes Below Ben Nevis Summit

Next mountain to climb Scafell Pike We begin our climb in the dark at 5.00 in the morning .................. Here is a video of us on our way to Scafell Pike ,it`s so dark you are unable to see anyone just hear my voice :)

After travelling through the night from Scotland to England we finally reach our next mountain with very little sleep ,in my case no sleep . Above we finally reach the Scafell Pike summit and climbed it in 4 hours up/down . It was also -12 degrees at the top of the mountain , ice on the rocks and boulders !

Next Snowden!

You can see the Snowden summit through the windscreen ...........................

Me on the top of Snowden extremely tired :) Only 9 of us out of 23 climbers managed to get up the top of the 3 mountains ,i managed to get to the finger point on top of Ben Nevis due to a lady in my group that was so lovely but kept on talking and had to stop due to tiredness which slowed us up and couldn`t have my pic at the summit but on the way down we rescued a family off the mountain who missed the Snowden train and were stranded whilst climbing down in the dark which more than made up for it .There was an eldery couple and a child ,they had no torches and it was dark so i was pleased that my ego and the same of our expedtion leader was smaller than that of the leader and the group in front who passed them by and left them for us to resue so they could get better times and bigger egos !

Even more annoying was the fact i could have had time to get to the summit by the time we rescued the family but it was a great joy to see the family we resued so happy to be safe and we gave them a lift in our mini bus :)

One of my favourite challenges because it was so tough and i want to do it all over again ,never thought i`d say that when i was doing it but it was an absolutely fantasic experience !!!