Miss Hilton in Antarctica!

On the 28th July, my friend Karen and I successfully completed the 3 peaks challenge in 22 hours and 43 minutes.  After a small delay (due to a tempremental car), we started at 10pm on the 27th by hiking up Snowdon. It was pretty dark by the time we started but we really enjoying the climb up, getting only slightly scared when we thought we saw a ghost on the summit! With the use of our head torches, we were able to stick to the path and got up and down in three and a half hours.  Then came the drive to Scafell which didn’t take too long with Kimber’s driving (although it did make me slightly ill!). We managed only 1-2 hours sleep in the car then started climbing Scafell at 5:30am on the 28th. Despite the ferocious wind and rain, we hiked to the summit and were back down again within 3 hours. Then came the long drive to Scotland, broken only with a few coffee stops and a lovely fish and chip supper.  We started climbing Ben Nevis at around3:30pm that afternoon and walked through snow and horizontal hale to reach the summit in 3 hours. We then made it back down to Glen Nevis by8:43pm, bringing the total time on Ben Nevis to 5hours 15 min and our 3 peaks challenge being successfully completed in 22 hours and 43 minutes. A really big thank you must go to Karen for doing the challenge with me (just for fun) and to Kimber for driving us the whole way and providing Karen with amazingly useful advice as she battled the onset of hypothermia on Ben Nevis! It was a really fun challenge to do, the hardest thing about it being the lack of sleep.  Thank you so much to everyone who sponsored me. If you would like to sponsor me now, you still can at www.justgiving.com/lhilton1.