Three Peak Challenge

The Three Peaks Challenge is, most certainly without a doubt, a real Challenge in every sense of the word.
 
The Three Peaks Challenge encompasses the three highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales respectively. However, it is a common misunderstanding that the Three Peaks Challenge involves the three highest summits of Britain, as in actual fact there are over one hundred mounts in Scotland higher than Scafell Pike and more than fifty are higher than Snowdon – but that takes nothing away from the Three Peaks Challenge itself – which if done “by the book” is done within a staggering deadline of just 24 hours.

Many people contemplating the Three Peaks Challenge simply want to experience the thrill and sense of accomplishment that the Three Peaks Challenge offers – whilst others are hoping to raise funds for a cherished charity, and up to press, Mountain and Glen are delighted that we have helped raise many hundreds of thousands of pounds for charitable causes.

However, before you can even contemplate undertaking The Three Peaks Challenge, you must ensure that you are prepared both mentally and physically for the Challenge ahead

As the Three Peaks Challenge is such an arduous and tough undertaking by any stretch of the imagination, some people prefer to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks as a “warm up” exercise in preparation for the National Three Peaks Challenge itself. The Yorkshire Three Peaks extends about 25 miles and follows a circular route through the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, starting and finishing in the quaint and delightful village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale. The Yorkshire Three Peaks, as with the National Three Peaks Challenge, offers fantastic scenery taking in such sights as the Ribblehead Viaduct, which telly addicts will know appears on the opening credits of the popular television show “Emmerdale”.

It should be noted that the Yorkshire Challenge, whilst not as arduous as the National Three Peaks Challenge, does still cover quite a distance, being only a tad shorter than a marathon with some uneven and boggy terrain thrown into the equation too, and so anyone partaking this particular Challenge should have a good degree of fitness and stamina – and, of course, as we are in Britain rapid changes in the weather should be allowed for!

The Yorkshire Three Peaks involves the summits of Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough and perhaps it goes without saying that a huge sense of achievement and accomplishment will most definitely be found at the end of your journey.


All i can say is that the views are breath taking,the atmosphere and team spirit is amazing i should know i did it when i was at school.

Next year I'm going to compete in the Three Peaks Challenge with a group of friends, our aim is to not only complete the challenge in under 24hr but to raise £5000 for McMillan cancer group. I have designed another blog for this event in which we will be sharing tips and training videos/photos and stories all the way up to the event next year. It is a massive event in which we are organising and competing with out any hired help.

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Little Risk Of Brain Cancer When Using A Mobile!!

Using a mobile phone does not appear to increase the risk of developing certain types of brain cancer, the largest study of its kind has concluded.

 Breaking News from BBC Website

Analysis of more than 10,000 people by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found no relationship between years of use and risk.
There is no known biological mechanism by which mobiles could cause cancer, but there has been public concern..


 It is hoped this study will allay some anxieties, as research continues.
The overall rate of brain cancer has not risen in countries where use has long been prevalent - like Sweden, and studies have mostly found no evidence of an increased risk. This latest research is consistent with this.

 The 20m euro (£17m) Interphone study, which received some funding from the mobile industry, involved more than 5,000 men and women from 13 countries who had been diagnosed with one of two types of brain cancer - glioma and meningioma - between 2000 and 2004.
These cancers, both rare, were judged to be among the most likely to be influenced by phone use.
The patients were asked to record their mobile phone usage, and then the results were compared with adults of similar age, sex and background who did not have the disease.
Some had been using their phones for more than a decade, making this one of the longest-ranging studies to date.

Extreme results
In fact, most regular users - defined as people who made use of their phone at least once a week - appeared to have a lower risk of brain cancer than those who rarely used a phone. The report authors stressed however this was unlikely to be down to any protective effect of phone use, and more a quirk of the study.

This is consistent with published biological studies, which have not established any effect of exposure to radiation from mobile phones at a cellular level nor found a mechanism by which cancer could be caused Professor Patricia McKinney Interphone researcher University of Leeds

But they also dismissed as problematic the finding that at the other extreme end of the spectrum those using the phone for the longest cumulative periods, more than 1,640 hours, appeared to have a higher risk, regardless of over what period of time this was spread. This was as much as 40% higher for glioma, and 15% higher for meningioma.

Nearly 50 cancer patients reported using their phone more than five hours every day of the week, with 10 recalling that they had used it for 12 hours each day.

"It's not impossible that people were using their phones for this long, but it is highly unlikely," said Professor Anthony Swerdlow of the Institute of Cancer Research, which carried out one of the two UK arms of the study.

The report noted that people with brain tumours were more likely to overestimate the role of a potential risk factor, and that the disease interferes with memory and cognition, undermining the accuracy of the recollections of such extreme use.

Unlike lung cancer, where the risk rises the more cigarettes are smoked, this mobile phone data shows no increased risk until the very heaviest use begins. This was also seen as casting doubt on the reliability of the reports.

"This study cannot answer whether there are long-term risks beyond fifteen years, nor would it have been able to pick up much, much smaller risks," says Professor Swerdlow. "But if there was a large and immediate risk we would have seen it.

"Whether it is worth doing more research, that is a question for society. These are expensive studies, and there are many other things in the world that should be investigated.

"It is society which has to answer the question of how long you continue to investigate something that does not have a biological basis."

There were however reports of some differences within the research team as to how best to interpret the data, and the authors do say that further analysis of long-term, heavy use is in order.
A prospective study was in fact launched last month to examine the long term effects of mobile phone use. Cosmos, the cohort study on mobile communications, will recruit 250,000 and follow them for as long as 30 years.

The lobby group Mast was not assuaged by the Interphone findings, arguing that it wanted to see results for other cancers including salivary gland tumours and acoustic neuromas.
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