Their story, in their words…
Firstly, we travelled from London to Glasgow by overnight coach, before taking two buses to Fort William and beginning our hike up Ben Nevis. We completed the climb in just under seven hours before returning to Glasgow for the night.
The following morning, we set our alarms for 5.30am and travelled by train and two local buses to Seatoller to begin our hike up Scafell Pike. This was definitely the most difficult day, as we were already tired from Ben Nevis and had had little sleep. We reached around 900m of elevation (the summit is at 978m), but with 1.5km of distance still to go, we made the difficult decision to turn back so that we would not miss our train to Manchester.
On the final day, we had another 5.30am start as we travelled to Llanberis and climbed Snowdon. The train was delayed, and the weather on the mountain wasn’t the best, with very low visibility and heavy rain. Despite this, we successfully reached the summit before returning to London by train.
Overall, the challenge was physically and mentally demanding. In total, we each did 84,024 steps, 68.3km distance, and over 3,000 metres elevation gain across three days. The biggest challenges were the logistics of relying entirely on unreliable public transport and having to complete a long and relentless mountain climb on each consecutive day. Although we were disappointed not to complete Scafell Pike, we were proud that we continued to push ourselves.
The experience taught us a lot about endurance, organisation and adapting when things do not go according to plan. Overall, it was a challenging but rewarding experience that we will remember for a long time.
