The 3 Peaks
As we complete the Challenge we will update these paragraphs. Our blogger will post pictures of us at the summit of each peak and we'll hopefully get some fun ones too! Until then you will just have to cope with these lovely pictures and some of the fun facts about each mountain.
The expedition will take us roughly 24 straight hours to complete. We will spend about 11 hours in the minibus moving between mountains but we will be able to sleep thanks to the staff who will be accompanying us on our expedition. I am sure all the team members will join me in thanking the staff as they have made this trip possible. Without them we would not have had this opportunity or the resources to care out this expedition. Thank you.
Until we climb the mountains we are going to give you a bit of background information about each of the climbs. Enjoy!
Ben Nevis
Ben Nevis is the highest peak, not only in our challenge but in all of the British Isles. It stands at 1,344 metres (4,408 feet) and it a serious challenge in terms of fitness alone.
The english translation of Ben Nevis, from gaelic, means 'Mountain of Heaven' and in 1883 Clement L. Wragge built an observatory on the mountain.
The summit is only clear 1 day out of 10, so we're hoping for a nice one so we can get the view!
Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike is England's highest mountain at 978 metres (3,208 feet) but is the lowest of our 3 ascents.
The range was orginally camed the Pikes of Sca Fell but a mistake on an OS map resulted in it being called Scafell Pike and the name stuck.
In the first quarter of the 20th Century, Lord Leconfield in memory of the men of the Lake District who fell in the First World War, donated Scafell to the National Trust.
Wadesdale Head Inn is at the base of the climb and is the birthplace of British climbing
Snowdon
In Welsh, Snowdon is Yr Wyddfa, meaning tomb or monument as folklore states that it is the tomb of an ogre killed by King Arthur.
Snowdon stands at 1,085 metres (3,560 feet) high.
Every year, roughly 350,000 people reach the summit of this mountain.
Snowdon is the only mountain, of the three we intend on ascending, that has a railway up to the peak and this is the only rack and pinion railway in the UK.