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At 5pm on the last Saturday in June the Climb it Change team will begin the gruelling challenge of climbing the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales in just twenty four hours. |
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Described as ‘One of the ultimate challenges in the United Kingdom’, the three peaks, Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, have a combined height of over 11,000 ft with over 42 kilometres of ascent and descent, and include 760 km of road travel between them. The team must accomplish all of this before 5pm on the following day in order to complete the challenge, pushing their levels of endurance and mental strength to the maximum. Adverse weather conditions, sleep deprivation and exhaustion are just three of the problems facing the team, but these all pale into insignificance when compared to the problems faced by many of the poorest countries in the world. Watching news reports of poverty stricken nations and areas of conflict is a daily occurrence in today’s world, and yet we often feel helpless and question whether we really can make a difference. The Climb it Change team want to give you the opportunity to make that difference by sponsoring them and funding the amazing work of Christian Aid. The climb can only be successful with your help by raising as much money as possible to help tackle poverty and injustice around the world. |
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Christian Aid is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland. We work wherever the need is greatest – irrespective of religion or race. We believe in strengthening people to find solutions to their own problems, so we support local organisations best placed to understand local needs. We also help them through 16 overseas offices. We are striving for an end to poverty and campaigning to change the rules that keep people poor. |
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Jon Pedley
 Having never climbed a mountain before, the thought of climbing the three highest in England, Scotland and Wales in just twenty four hours seems a bit of a harebrained idea. You’d normally find me in the classroom teaching primary kids or doing youth work around the diocese, so this kind of physical exertion is not a typical pastime. The training may be hard and the challenge even harder, but if it encourages you guys to part with your cash and change the lives of people living in poverty across the world, it has to be worth it. "Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." Trevor Wooldridge
 Why am I doing this? Apart from I’m a little bit mad, the three peaks is going to be a genuine challenge for me. I enjoy hiking up hills but the three peaks is going to be something else! Tens of millions of people will face food and water shortages in the coming years as a result of carbon emissions; by climbing three mountains and getting sponsorship for it I can help Christian Aid to change that. Richard Ashmore
 Not sure whose idea this was? It may have been mine – but I will blame Jon! The Lord moves in mysterious ways… but nothing on how I’ll be moving after we have done this! This is the right combination of a great challenge, great fellowship and a great cause. I maybe mad but I’m looking forward to it! This is God’s world, we are all God’s children, let’s get together and just do something small for the Kingdom. ‘We can do no great thing, just small things with great love’ – Mother Teresa Ben Nevis here we come! Chris Hill
 Right, now I seem like the silly one, I am 20 years old and I wasn't exactly the sporty one in school. But last year I did a bike ride of 230 miles, with little training, and then this year I am doing the 3 peaks. You've seen the stats, it will be one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, but it’s nowhere near as hard as the lives of the people that live in poverty have to deal with everyday of their lives. So that’s why I'm doing it. | ||
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Ben Nevis
Height: 4,409 ft (1,344 metres)
Location: Lochaber, Western Scotland Approx climbing time: 5 hours Key facts: ‘The Ben’, as many climbers know it is the highest mountain in the British Isles. The Gaelic translation of Ben Nevis is venomous mountain. Scafell Pike
Height: 3,209 ft (978 m)
Location: Cumbria, England Approx climbing time: 5 hours Key facts: The land that the mountain stands on was donated to the National Trust in 1920 in memory of the men of the Lake District "who fell for God and King, for freedom, peace and right in the Great War". Snowdon
Height: 3,560 ft (1,085 metres)
Location: Gwynedd, Wales Approx climbing time: 4 hours Key facts: In terms of 'absolute height' the mountain is the same height as ‘Table Mountain’ in South Africa. The English name Snowdon comes from the Saxon ‘Snow Dun,’ meaning ‘snow hill’. |
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UK charity number 1105851 |
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