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Myself and Oliver J Hill took on the challenge of climbing Scafell Pike in the Lake District back in March. We’re two thirds of the way in taking on the Three Peaks Challenge (climbing the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales in ‘one go’ – usually 24hours. These peaks are Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England, and Snowdon in Wales) – only we’re doing it across a couple of years. Yeah, alright, so I’m not that fit okay?
We took on Snowdon around the same time in 2014 and this was the view from the top:
View from the top of Mount Snowdon in April 2014 avec champagne nonetheless.
It was fair to say we were sozzled.
So we planned to take on Scafell Pike in the same manner. The day we arrived in Cumbria we went to check out the mountain. This was the view:
View of Scafell Pike in Cumbria on March 27, 2015. It was a stunning sight.
As you can imagine, our expectations were high.
We woke up the next day and this is what it looked like:
I was raining, it was windy and it was so cold. But it’s okay because we came prepared:
Confident that I looked like Lara Croft and Oli looked like Sir Ranulph Fiennes, we took on the challenge anyway. Here’s a video I made for you all to laugh at. It was shot on my iPhone and bear in mind IT WAS SO COLD that the touch screen couldn’t recognise my fingers and I gave up filming. But it was such a laugh.
Anyway, enjoy.
Hollie and Oli take on Scafell Pike from Hollie Borland on Vimeo.
Hollie Borland 