Three Peaks Challenge 2008 - Are you ready for the challenge?
Raise money for young cancer patients to enjoy the Youth Cancer Trust experience
Youth Cancer Trust in Dorset is looking for willing teams to participate in the great Three Peaks Challenge in 2008. The three peaks challenge offer teams some of the toughest walking in the UK. For many, completing the three peaks challenge can be harder than other fundraising events, but ultimately more rewarding. The YCT help many youngsters each year but this can only be achieved by fundraising support from teams who participate in challenges like this.
More on the three peaks challenge in 2008
20 - 22 June 2008
Mount Snowdon 3,560 ft
Scafell Pike 3,205 ft
Ben Nevis 4,406 ft
Minimum of 2 drivers and 4 climbers required
Minimum Sponsorship - £2000 (£600 deposit required)
Organiser 2008 Mersey Venture - link to website
We are looking for teams to take part in climbing Britain's three highest peaks in a demanding weekend in June 2008
Download Three Peaks Information Pack
Download Three peaks Supporters pack
We are also looking for drivers for this event. Please can you help? Email here if you can
The Barclays 2006 team who finished the three peaks challenge in 12 hours 23 minutes!
"Completing the three peaks challenge in 24 hours was an exhausting but great achievement and for such a worthwhile cause. We bonded with other people who we only ever come across in a professional environment. Great for team building."
Barclays (Poole) 3 Peaks team
TELEPHONE 01202 763591 FOR MORE INFORMATION
A Three Peaks experience - kindly submitted by Julie Young (2006)
THE CHALLENGE
If you are thinking of doing the three Peaks - DON'T ! Think that is - just GO FOR IT !
When it was first suggested I must admit I did hesitate, after all I didn't even walk to the shops ! But I said yes and committed to it (many times after I thought I should be). But hey I like a challenge & oh boy what a challenge & what a great cause. So off I trotted to Oswald Bailey where a very nice man who was a seasoned walker helped me get the right boots, probably THE most important piece of kit. Lets face it if your boots aren't right you may as well not even start.
THE TRAINING
And thus started 'The Training' - Sunday = walks over The Purbecks or Chessell Beach or Shell Bay. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday = treadmill on an incline, weights, rowing machine & step ups. Thursday rest, Friday = gym, Saturday = rest. I have to admit that many times at the end of a long day at work when it was cold and dark the last thing I felt like was a trip to the gym and then I would remind myself I had 3 Peaks to climb only months away. Terrific incentive.
THE TEAM
The Team were seasoned climbers, Sam lived in Derbyshire as a child and family fun at weekends was hill walking, Sandra & Roy got engaged at base camp on Everest ! & then there was me ! I was by far the weakest link in my team, over 40, unfit and the highest peak I ever climbed was a sand dune !! Though I do take the stairs when shopping. So it's not hard to see why no one I knew who was doing the three peaks challenge wanted me on their team so I had no choice - I formed my own. My wonderful husband, Marc Young (probably the only one who thought I could do it, ain't love blind ) became our sponsor and MY TEAM was born. Not forgetting our two trusty drivers Anne & Colin who were terrific at getting us from one Peak to the next, without a cross word between them.
THE PEAKS
No amount of hours in the gym or walks on the beach / Purbecks really prepared me for the true reality of the climb.
Peak 1 =Snowdon There were times when I felt like a toddler lifting one chubby leg after the other up a flight of stairs for the very first time. (Shame the legs are still the same ) But the view WOW it was worth it and I made it up and down without incident.
Scarfeld - Not my favourite, very rugged especially near the top, with lots and lots of sheep ! But I figured if they could make it up there so then could I. Take your insect repellent the midges really come out in force at dusk.
Ben Nevis - 4.15am, drizzly & cold -BLISS. This way we would stay cool and comfortable. Two down one to go and by far the hardest. Twice the distance, 19 hours into the challenge with little sleep & too pumped up on adrenaline to eat what I should have. But this was it, only 5 hours to complete if we were going to do it in the 24. Amazingly I did it, not so amazing for the rest of MY Team but definitely for me. And with 10 minutes to spare !!
I won't pretend it was easy but the sense of achievement, camaraderie, memories and friendships formed will stay with me forever.
Julie Young
Get involved in the Three Peaks in 2008!
YCT are looking to find teams or individuals who would like to take part in the three peaks challenge. To find out more, contact us by sending us an email
