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7,000 good
reasons for a really tough challenge
The Brighton teams in this year’s Three Peaks
Challenge who hope to raise more than £7,000 for the Brighton Heart Support
Trust.
T EAMS taking part in
this year’s Three Peaks Challenge struck gold in more ways than one.
Brighton Heart Support Trust
entered four teams. An all boy and an all girl team, a girls ambulance team and
cardiac theatres.
The ‘boys’ completed the
challenge in 18 hours 15 minutes to earn a gold award. They finished eleventh of
more than sixty teams taking part. It is the best-ever time for a team from
Brighton hospitals.
The annual charity event
challenges teams to climb three peaks in three countries in less than 24 hours
– Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in the Peak District and Snowdon in
Wales.
Weather at the start of the
event was wet but despite rumbles of thunder, the rain stopped enabling the team
to complete the climb and descent of Ben Nevis in 3 hours 25 minutes and Scafell
Pike in 2 hours 31 minutes. Their time for climbing to the top of Snowdon was 1
hour 15 minutes.
The girls’ teams both
received silver awards.
Cardiac Theatres were rewarded
for undertaking a tough training schedule in the County Hospital’s Thomas Kemp
Tower.
They started at the bottom of
the tower block, walking up two flights and down one until they reached the top.
Then two down and one up until they returned to the bottom.
They were also gold award
winners with a time of 19 hours 40 minutes. Mountain times were Ben Nevis 3
hours 42 minutes, Scafell Pike 3 hours 9 minutes and Snowdon 1 hour 40 minutes.
The result of all these efforts for Brighton
Heart Support Trust should exceed £7,000.
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The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton