Team Alpha :: Challenge

Team Alpha completed the 3-Peaks challenge in 23hrs, 24mins and 57secs!
In recognition for their efforts, everyone was awarded a certificate, medal and CD...

COMPLETED:
23 hrs
24 mins
57 secs

The Big Day

0500 Start
0725 Ben Nevis (Ben Neverest!) summit
0922 Ben Nevis finish 
1548 Scafell Pike (Scallymanjaro Pike!) start
1725 Scafell Pike summit
1851 Scafell Pike finish
2350 Snowdon (S2!) start
0215 Snowdon summit
0424 Snowdon finish

Surprises

Ben Nevis: Eagle tracks in the snow on the peak, 360 panorama, no cloud!
LOTS of midges Tuesday evening and when we got back down.
Scafell Pike: RAF Tornados doing flybys down the valley, meeting 3 of our friends shouting 'SURPRISE!' at the summit dressed in 'Team Omega' T-shirts cooking a barbecue and drinking beer (one of whom is Sarah's boyfriend and had managed to keep their secret from her and us for a week!)
Snowdon: How very long a journey is when you're in the dark, dawn breaking at half 3 giving us some much needed light so we could jog the last bit.

Achievements

We climbed Snowdon from the Watkin Path = 1085-57 = 1028m not Miners/Pyg which lots of people do and which starts at ~350m up. We were in a minibus meaning our motorway speed was (supposed to be) 60mph max and 50mph on A-roads.

Dan drove 1030 miles in 3 days.

Du cooked 45 meals in 2 days.

We walked a total distance of 40km and a total height of 3070m.

Ben Nevis summit, the first peak of the challenge.

Celebrations

8pm [Thursday] night at the Craddock Arms Pub (with one eye on the Sweden game) we had dinner (off plates not out of Tupperware boxes) with our friends to celebrate our success. The awards ceremony started at 10pm when Fergus gave the support crew members some beer and wine, I was given some chocolates then I gave every team member a certificate, a medal and a CD. We presented Team Omega with some beer and David Richardson joined us to sign our certificates and verify our challenge.

A merry time was had by all.

The following documents summarise the planned schedule of events and the menu during the challenge. Although the challenge has been completed, they are left here as a record and memento. These are PDF files; you will need a viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader for them: Schedule (52KB) Menu (46KB)