Richard's dad Gwynfor lost his fight against Cancer in June.

In his memory we are raising money for the Francis Crick Institute (www.crick.ac.uk). Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to find new ways to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses such as cancer.

We hope the money we raise will help to prevent other families from losing loved ones to Cancer.

Richard, Andy, Tom, Fergus, Frank and Ross are setting out to complete the Welsh 3000s Challenge. We are required to have been at the top of all 15 of the mountains over 3000 ft in Wales within the space of 12 hours, without using any form of transport. (www.welsh3000s.co.uk)

This challenge is often underestimated (we fall into this category!). It is a  big step up from something like the “Three Peaks Challenge”.
Navigation can also be problematic (particularly if Richard has the compass!!). We will be bivvying at the top of Snowdon the night before to make the most of the 12hours of daylight that we will have on the 24th September. 

We are aiming for as close to 12 hours as we can. We are told that "Times below 12 hours (first peak to final peak) are sometimes achieved by exceptionally fit walkers".  When they say "fit" we hope they mean good looking in which case we will all be fine!!

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