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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
This was the starting point in the visitors centre car park at Ben Nevis from left to right Sarah(Adam's Mum and driver), Adam and Andy(Adam's Dad) and taking the photo was Chris (Adam's Uncle and the second driver) -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Sarah and Adam before he set of on the start of this challenge. Sarah is the only member of her immediate family to have survived cancer. -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Macmillan Monkey, our mascot and Adam's constant companion in all of his endeavours to promote Macmillan Cancer Relief -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Crossing a small snow field on the way to the top. Care Challenge Series are also doing the challenge at the same time and have 32 teams of 7 people on the mountain at the same time plus there is about 8 private groups also doing the challenge. -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Adam at the triangulation point at the summit of Ben Nevis. Celebrations were short as we started to focus on the descent and a long drive to the Lake District and Scarfell Pike -
A View from the top of Ben Nevis of Fort William
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
We stopped for a second to take a photgraph of the view on a very humid and misty evening. -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
As dusk sets in we descend the mountain -
5:17am Adam at The Summit of Scarfell Pike 11.06.06
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Only when we reached the top of Scarfell Pike we were able to take photographs becuase of the lack of light as we had started the ascent at 3:30am. -
View of the path on the descent of Scarfell Pike to Wasdale
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
In the far distance is Sarah and Chris( our drivers) desperately trying to get some sleep before their next mission to get us to Snowdon on time, in North Wales. -
11:40am The start of the Pyg Track up Snowdon 11.6.06
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Macmillan and Adam on their final ascent of the last and most dramatic mountain. -
12:16pm Snowdon from the Pyg Track 11.6.06
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
An inspiring and heart stopping view even when you might feel exhausted 19hrs 13 mins into the challenge -
1:17pm Adam at The summit of Snowdon 11.6.06
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Adam at the final summit and only a 5 mile descent to llanberis remains to complete the challenge -
Adam and the ornate brass triangulation plaque at the top of
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Adam at the triangulation point on Snowdon with the pyg track valley behind him. -
22:03:30! The final finishing time for the challenge
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
22 hours 3 minutes and 30 seconds and Adam, my 10 year old son and Macmillan Monkey have successfully completed the 3 peaks challenge, with 3 exhausted adults in his shadow. -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
We forgot to get a photo at the end of the descent. This photo was taken at 3:56pm in the car park opposite the Snowdon railway station. -
hot and humid, very uncomfortable in town in a small van, clear all day, now light cloud, temp18.8C.
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Adam was invited to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire at 8am to be interviewed live on air! On Thursday the 1st of June he was in our local paper and Friday he was interviewed by another local radio station LITE FM. -
overcast start to the day, cool overnight 10.7C, skies cleared by dinner, light breeze, temp now 18.8C, clear.
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very sunny start to the day, light winds, temp 19.5
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From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
Training climb 28/05/06 The top was very wet with a 40 mile an hour wind, climb up 3hr, down 1.5hr to Wasdale Head -
From the album: The three peaks in 24hr's
A Sunday morning climb on a damp windy day, a training climb -
Misty start to the day, overnight low 11.2C, mist slowly cleared during the morning, hot clear afternoon, starting to mist up again now, temp 15.2C
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overnight low 7.6C, clear warm start to the day, light cloud cover all day, wind gentle breeze, temp now 20.6C, skies clear.
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heavy rain overnight, cleared by 10am, overnight low 8.1C, bright spells with the odd heavy shower, temp now 17.7C, wind moderate breeze.
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Friday morning saw my first ducklings and today saw some coot chicks at Flag fen. also have great tits nesting in one of the garden bird boxes.
