Samuel Crowder is fundraising for Marie Curie Cancer Care

Thales Three Peaks Challenge 2009

Thales Three Peaks Challenge

on 23/05/2009

The Team

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Team members:

David Baddeley, Simon Norton, Barry Taylor, Jose Maria Garcia, Sam Crowder, Paul Perry

Raising money for

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Charity Registration No. 207994 (England & Wales) and SC038731 (Scotland)

Marie Curie Cancer Care provides high quality nursing, totally free, to give people with terminal cancer and other illnesses the choice of dying at home, supported by their families. It runs nine Marie Curie Hospices across the UK offering free specialist care for patients and support for families. The charity conducts palliative care research to find better ways of caring for terminally ill people and also funds scientists who investigate the causes and treatments of cancer. Charity Registration No 207994 (England & Wales) and SC0 38731 (Scotland)

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The Team

David Baddeley, Simon Norton, Sam Crowder, Paul Perry, Jose Maria Garcia & Barry Taylor

This years International team will see Jose Maria representing Airbus Military alongside his collegues from Thales Air Operations. Martin Kelly and Andrew Slater have kindly offered up their weekend to drive the team from peak to peak, making sure we dont get lost on the way!

Update: Training is underway with the Breacon Beacons and Exmoor providing good practice for the team (see picture inset), we have been busy raising money at work with the Wii challenge and a sweepstake for anyone guessing the fastest time.

Three Countries, 474 miles, Three Peaks, 3407 Vertical Metres in 24 hours.

The Three Peaks Challenge will see the Thales team tackle the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales in less than 24 hours.

The Team will begin climbing Ben Nevis at 16:00hrs on 23rd May, ascending nearly 1344 metres to the summit in under 3 hours, followed by a swift 2.5 hour decent back to the bottom and speedy dinner in the waiting vehicles. We are then driven 265 miles to the base of England’s tallest mountain, Scafell Pike.

Arriving at Scafell Pike around 02:30 in the morning the team begin the night assent of England's Tallest mountain. Its dark, cold and more than likely raining and more to the point this is the second mountain after a cramped 6 hour car journey.

At around 07:00hrs we will summit Scafell turn straight back and head down to the vehicles that will take us the final 209 miles into the heart of Wales and to the base of Mount Snowdon.

At 11:00hrs we will begin the final part of our challenge the 24km round trip up Mount Snowdon. By this point we have already traversed 4616 vertical metres with a lack of proper sleep and rest.

Around 13:00hrs and we will stand at the highest point in Wales feeling a sense of pride and achievement… only to remember in order to complete the challenge we have to return to the base of Snowdon by 16:00.

	good effort Donation by Sam McCollum 14/06/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Well Done Donation by Sheila and Sybil 05/06/09	£25.00
	Well done Donation by Colin Nash 04/06/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Well Done! Donation by Janice Bell 29/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Well done guys. Same again next year? Donation by Mum and Ian 28/05/09	£60.00 + £16.92 Gift Aid
	And they came home singing - "climb every mountain" - good luck guys Donation by Airbus Military 22/05/09	£500.00
	Good Luck! Donation by Jane & Steve Norton 22/05/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Donation by Paul and Katharine 21/05/09	£40.00 + £11.28 Gift Aid
	Nice one! Donation by Matt Taylor 21/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Best of luck -will be thinking of you all Donation by Breeze family 21/05/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Dave Donation by Susie Flexer 19/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	ssssshhhhhhaaaaaaggggyyyyyyyy. Best of luck old chap. Donation by George Emery 19/05/09	£20.00
	I'll take your word for it that this is you. Good luck! Donation by Cathy Devitt 19/05/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	Best of luck little bro & the Thales massive!! Good on ya xxxx Donation by Alice Baddeley 19/05/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	Donation by Schist 18/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck everyone! Great cause. Donation by Shaun Bignell 18/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck old boy!! Donation by The Daveys 17/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	love you bro xx Donation by Ruth & Bob 14/05/09	£20.00
	Good Luck!!! Donation by Wen 14/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	To encourage old man Paul and help a great charity it is a pleasure to support Donation by Mike Gelder 14/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Best of luck! Donation by Nora & Ron Knowles 14/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck from the Ashes! Donation by Victoria 11/05/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	The very best of luck - take care Donation by Annabel Trechmann 11/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	on yer bike Donation by Mike Hooper 11/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck & enjoy it! Donation by The Ingles 08/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Don't forget to take your woolly hat it could be cold up there! Donation by Bill and Sue Painter 08/05/09	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	It's a great cause. Good luck Donation by Bun 08/05/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	You crazy fools! Good luck! x Donation by Gillian Russell 07/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Sounds great fun - enjoy!!! Donation by David Knight 07/05/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck! x Donation by Louise 29/04/09	£10.00

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