Hampton Hikers & Team GBM on top of Ben Nevis

Isle of Man just before start of the 1st peak

Team GBM & Hampton Hikers all finished!!!

Stop press.......GBM delighted to have completed the gruelling 6 Peaks Challenge and raise more than £10,000 for WaterAid. A huge thank you to all our sponsors - colleagues, friends, families, and all who have contributed to this incredible sum.

A big thanks for the team sponsors: TOM Vehicle Rental (www.tomvehiclerental.co.uk), Two-plus-Two, Hercules Site Services, Boultings, DRC Services, GTIS, H&M, Ward & Burke, Anord, Fergal Contracting, Straight Line Services, HVMS, and Alfa-Laval.

Our fellow teams

Despite the pain and lack of sleep, we’ve had a great time. A big chunk of that is due to the other teams who we met and bonded with along the way.

 

If you want to see how they got on, and see other photos of the journey, you can look them up in the following places (the name in brackets is their radio call sign):

 

Unathletico Madras (Chapati): Unknown

 

The Village People (YMCA): Twitter @CornwellDavid

 

The Black & Veatch Lions (Simba): Twitter @thesixpeaks or @iPaulSutherland

 

Ascenders of the Earth (Jumar): Twitter @djtomlawson

 

Walking for the Peakend (Robinson): Twitter @pandybear55

 

Humble Bumblers (Bombas): Twitter @catminor or @steVnut or @jane_jane845

                                                                Blog: http://6peakshumblebumblers.wordpress.com/

 

Aquaholics (Tequila): Unknown

 

Team GBM (Gallifrey) & Hampton Hikers (Skaro): Twitter @alexanderlouden

                                                                                                     Blog: http://wateraid6peaksgbm.blogspot.co.uk/

 

And for anyone wanting to follow the organisers, they have a twitter feed @WaterAid_6peaks

 

If anyone knows of any other blogs, twitter feeds or anything else from the weekend that hasn’t been included here, please let me know.

Our home for the last few days TOM mini buses ..

And the Award for best Individual effort goes to........

I guess you know who by now.......well done Skaro trail blazer!!!

Corran Tuathail

WE'VE FINISHED!

Lots of aches and pains, being gently soothed by beer...

The final supper!

All arrived safely in Cairnryan for ferry to ireland.

Enough time to hunt down a curry house in Stranraer and have what should be our last evening meal before the Monday night celebrations......we hope!!

Word getting around and there should be another few walkers joining our groups for the last peak.......coran tuathail in souther Ireland.

Keep working hard back at the ranch

Ben Nevis completed

John all excited about the ice cream.

Team GBM with Yorkshire Water Team

Ben Nevis

The Hampton hikers crossing the last bridge abd marching towards the finish line.

Chilli out

Alexander and Jacob cooling  off with some natural hydo therapy

Post peak 4

We've found a curry house in Stranraer, before our ferry leaves for Belfast.

General feeling of tiredness around the group, from a mixture of lack of food and sleep. Ben Nevis was started at 5:30, after arriving in Fort William at 2am. It was a long slog to the top, but rewarded by incredible views across the loch. And we got to walk across some snow!

Not loads of photos, but they will come soon...

Start of the 2nd half of our quest - no it's not The Lord of the rings

Journey from Lake District was long and tiring. Drivers now starting to feel the tiredness so climbers must now be really feeling the burn.
We set of from scafell pike from the picturesque hamlet of Seathwaite, in the Borrowdale valley.
Stopped in Kewsick to refuel on cards..........fish & chips all round!
On the road for about 9pm
Drivers swapped at abington just before 11pm, then it was straight to Corran for the bunkhouse to try and get the climber a couple of hours good sleep before the Ben Nevis climb.
Journey up loch Lommond side, thru Crianlarich, Tyndrum and alone Rannoch moor and past Ballachulish at that time of night is quiet but pitch black.
To make matter a worse the rain started. These roads are bad at the best of times!
To add to our pleasure and pass the time we also had to play I Spy for the numerous deer that were loitering with intent at the road side that time of night!
Apparently the graze at this time of night? It's safer???

Guess they never heard of the GBM drivers!!

Arrived safe and sound just before 2am. Climbers had to be back up at 4.15am.

Weather the following morning was good and sun soon came out. Views up here are fantastic!

1am.......where am I

View from Snowden towards the miners path

And some tricks on board

Our transport from Douglas to Hersham ....

Sunset en route to Hersham

Day 2 Early start for Snowden

Day 2 @ halfway house along Snowden

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