Pete on the Peaks
Peter Nance is raising money for LUPUS UK
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**Please watch our video in the gallery bit below---->(made up of bits we managed to get on the mountains). Thanks to Nick Molloy for this.
As you will know if you have been invited here, I climbed the three highest mountains in the British Isles one after another between October 26th and 27th last year.
I did this arduous (and kind of out-of-season) activity to shine a light on Lupus; what it is and what is being done to cure it.
I collected sponsorships from friends and family; then colleagues and strangers to try and raise money to help the valuable research into preventions and a possible cure.
If you are here, you're probably a generous sponsor of my event!
I can say in absolute honesty, it was extremely difficult for both me and my climbing partner Jon (who was collecting sponsorships for Alzheimer's Research). The time of year gave only about 10 good hours of light throughout the whole expedition, and the weather on all three mountains was rough. It was very cold, perpetually wet and fiercely windy. Snow and 100Kmph gusts nearly made me cancel the climb after Ben Nevis, as reports came in that Scafell Pike and Snowdon were as bad, if not worse. The A82, the main road from Fort William (Ben Nevis) back to Glasgow had flooded and was closed, so I had to divert South East to Sterling before getting to Glasgow again. This cost us valuable time, adding an extra four hours onto the journey to Scafell Pike.
The van door was blown off its hinges by the gales in Glencoe, so we had to tie it back on for the rest of the trip. Precious time was lost again when the van gear stick disengaged from the cable couplings and had to be repaired with the finger tips of a latex glove!
Our Snowdon climb was in pitch darkness, by which point we had been either driving or climbing for the last 24 hours. We got to the summit stone, and we wearily took the photo above with a waterlogged phone.
Soaked through and with blistered feet, we got back down, exhausted, but glad we had walked all those miles for a worthy cause. We even managed to get a few photos and bits of video despite the rain lashing our cameras and drowning my phone!
We climbed all three peaks in a combined total of 14 hours and 50 minutes: 5 hours for Ben Nevis, 4 hours 35 mins for Scafell pike, and 5 hours 15 mins for Snowdon. The driving portion took us even longer at 19 hours behind the wheel! This mammoth time was due to terrible traffic, flooded roads and diversions. We arrived home 37 hours after starting up the first mountain.
If you are sparing some of your money in sponsoring my climb, thank you! Please also spare a couple of minutes to watch the short video by Lupus UK explaining what the condition is, and perhaps why you might not know about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txx2jZyJWYw
**Please watch our video in the gallery bit below---->(made up of bits we managed to get on the mountains). Thanks to Nick Molloy for this.
As you will know if you have been invited here, I climbed the three highest mountains in the British Isles one after another between October 26th and 27th last year.
I did this arduous (and kind of out-of-season) activity to shine a light on Lupus; what it is and what is being done to cure it.
I collected sponsorships from friends and family; then colleagues and strangers to try and raise money to help the valuable research into preventions and a possible cure.
If you are here, you're probably a generous sponsor of my event!
I can say in absolute honesty, it was extremely difficult for both me and my climbing partner Jon (who was collecting sponsorships for Alzheimer's Research). The time of year gave only about 10 good hours of light throughout the whole expedition, and the weather on all three mountains was rough. It was very cold, perpetually wet and fiercely windy. Snow and 100Kmph gusts nearly made me cancel the climb after Ben Nevis, as reports came in that Scafell Pike and Snowdon were as bad, if not worse. The A82, the main road from Fort William (Ben Nevis) back to Glasgow had flooded and was closed, so I had to divert South East to Sterling before getting to Glasgow again. This cost us valuable time, adding an extra four hours onto the journey to Scafell Pike.
The van door was blown off its hinges by the gales in Glencoe, so we had to tie it back on for the rest of the trip. Precious time was lost again when the van gear stick disengaged from the cable couplings and had to be repaired with the finger tips of a latex glove!
Our Snowdon climb was in pitch darkness, by which point we had been either driving or climbing for the last 24 hours. We got to the summit stone, and we wearily took the photo above with a waterlogged phone.
Soaked through and with blistered feet, we got back down, exhausted, but glad we had walked all those miles for a worthy cause. We even managed to get a few photos and bits of video despite the rain lashing our cameras and drowning my phone!
We climbed all three peaks in a combined total of 14 hours and 50 minutes: 5 hours for Ben Nevis, 4 hours 35 mins for Scafell pike, and 5 hours 15 mins for Snowdon. The driving portion took us even longer at 19 hours behind the wheel! This mammoth time was due to terrible traffic, flooded roads and diversions. We arrived home 37 hours after starting up the first mountain.
If you are sparing some of your money in sponsoring my climb, thank you! Please also spare a couple of minutes to watch the short video by Lupus UK explaining what the condition is, and perhaps why you might not know about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txx2jZyJWYw