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    THREE PEAKS: ONE JOURNEY

    Oct 08, 2021 5 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVE MACFARLANE

    I SLUMP WEARILY over Snowdon’s trig, drooping myself around it. Am I thanking the trail for all it has given me? Or merely utilising the pillar to support my fatigue-ravaged body? Either way it feels like a symbolic moment. The mountain is holding me up, literally and metaphorically, and the trail is once again providing.

    For most people, the 'Three Peaks Challenge' means a 24-hour frenzy of mountain-climbing and motorway-driving. But I've done it the 'hard way' -entirely on foot. I’ve walked 17 marathons in 17 days to get here: a 492-mile journey, climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon – and hiking every mile between them – in 16 days, 15 hours and 39 minutes. It’s a new record for a solo, self-supported trek between the highest peaks of Scotland, England and Wales, and the longest continuous walk I’ve ever completed. In just over

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