Medway 3 Peakers

Archive for July, 2010

The team have completed their physical (and mental) challenge to raise funds for Demelza Children’s Hospice and Shelterbox.

All, at the outset, novices at trekking mountains, the preparation included map reading, emergency first aid, dietary and equipment requirement advice; together with plenty of walking/stamina training over a period of months.

With the support of Medway Youth Service, who provided a minibus and Medway Rotary radios the group departed from Strood at 05.25 Wednesday 30th June, stopping overnight in Perth.  Read more... (270 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)

As you can see from the home page of the site, we completed the Three Peaks Challenge on the 1st and 2nd July 2010.

Unfortunately, due to a number of factors – not least of which was travel delays between mountains and poor weather on all three peaks -  we did not achieve one of our aims – to complete in 24 hours.  Read more... (142 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)