Three Peaks 2009

The 3 Peaks Challenge as re-told by one of the surviving team members

Well, it's over and we made it round the 3 peaks.... Unfortunately not quite in the 24 hour limit, we took the 'leave no man or woman behind' tactic and coupled with some dubious satellite navigation and certainly a little faffing, we ended up knocking the lot off in 28.5 hours (Some of the team made it in 25 hours!)

The breakdown went something like this:

• Started Ben Nevis at 5.20pm on Friday. Severe Blizzards on top and couple of feet of snow. Up and down in 5 hours 20 min

• Scarfell Pike started at 7am, done in 3 hours 45min. Once again snow on the peak, horizontal cutting wind, rain and snow.

• Snowdon start at 4.10pm, finished in 4hours 50min. No snow surprisingly, however Fell Race cancelled due to lost teams! We were going in as the rescue helicopter was coming out!

So in all 8 of our initial 11 strong team completed all 3 peaks, which is a 73% success rate, slightly better than the Fell Race where 80 of 300 finished (a rubbish 27%)!

Everyone is well, a few blisters and sore knees but at least we avoided the dreaded snow-blindness! Many many thanks to everyone who sponsored us, it really helped at the lower moments (pushing through the gale-force wind, sitting in smelly damp car, putting on cold, wet clothes, having no hot food for over 24hrs...) and many thanks for the comments too!

There is still time if you would like to retrospectively sponsor us - go to Just Giving and you can view it as getting 4.5 extra hours for your money!

This feat was also featured in the Airbus internal magazine!