We've done it! The BALI Pillocks on the Hillocks have joined that exclusive club of 3-Peakers and scaled Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in an amazing 23 hours and 48 minutes in aid of the wonderful Greenfingers Charity.
It's all the more amazing when you consider the appalling weather on Thursday night when, having already climbed Ben Nevis, driving rain and 50 mph gusts of wind failed to stop us scaling Scafell Pike in some of the most atrocious conditions our professional Team Leaders have ever experienced in their years of taking teams through the 3 Peaks Challenge.
When we finally reached Penn-y-Pass on Friday morning, the starting point for our Snowdon ascent, we were all suffering from lack of sleep, aching limbs,sore knees and damp clothes but we kept each other's spirits high and got a second wind to get to the top of the mountain within the 24 hours allowed for the challenge. It was a fantastic feeling actually achieving what each of us set out to do - raise as much money as we could, through attempting the challenge, for an amazing cause.
Greenfingers is the horticulture industry’s charity, which raises money to build gardens in children’s hospices across the country. Some of us helped construct the garden at Chestnut Tree House hospice in , , 18 months ago and we wanted to raise as much money as we could to build more gardens at children’s hospices across the .
Donations so far from colleagues, friends, family and others connected with the landscaping and horticulture industries have been fantastic and we have now reached our original target of £10,000. We hope you will continue to give, now that we've all completed the challenge, and help us to reach £15,000 so that children with life limiting illnesses can spend precious time with their families in a beautiful garden.
It was that thought, and that alone, that kept the Pillocks on the Hillocks going through the 3 Peaks Challenge so please continue to give as much as you can. Thank you from us all.
