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The Six Hammered would like to thank everyone who has generously sponsored us on this adventure.

To date we have raised over £9000 towards Eikon and Hope House.

This will make a difference to the lives that these charities support - I know they appreciate what you have all contributed to.

Peaks 9-15

Offical Finish Phote - we were all there!



After Tryfan a chance to take a deserved break at checkpoint 2.

This is the point of no return. Once starting this leg, it is easier to finish than to find the route back and get of the mountain.

11 teams started this challenge and only 5 teams finished - ours being one of them. Actually we came in second with a total time of 18 hours, behind the winners - a team from the Marines. Our actual offical Peak to Peak time was clocked at 15 hours and 12 minutes, and our route was 29.17 miles.

There are few pictures of the remaining walk as the weather was absolutely appalling. From 2/3 of the way up Pen-yr Ole Wen (peak 9 @ 978m) it began to rain and it did not stop until we finished some 6 hours later.

I do not think that any of us have experienced wind so fierce or rain that hurt so much or visibility so poor - thank goodness for Goretex and GPS.

To put this into perspective: one team had to be air lifted off this section by mountain rescue, another followed the wrong path and ended up a two hour car journey away from the finish, others were just not allowed to go on.

This was a huge achievement and credit to 6 friends who had a mad idea over a couple of pints.

We clocked in at 10:15pm

Peak 8 - Tryfan 915m

So...the weather did brightened up for one peak.

This is Tryfan (2:12pm) and the views are spectacular.

Peak 7 - Glyder Fach 994m

No picture of the summit as you are probably bored of the sight of us.

Instead a view of the descent from Glyder Fach and the next that needed to be climbed (Tryfan). The dry stone wall marks the route up!

Photo taken at 1:38pm

Peak 6 - Glyder Fawr 999m

We now enter in the range known as the Glyder.

Time now 12:30pm. The weather might be improving as you can see a bit more of the landscape!

Peak 5 - Y Garn 947m

Spirits still high as we reach peak 5 at 11:20am

Peak 4 - Elidir Fawr 924m

We had a choice of descending Snowdon via a path/track or just go straight down...decision was to get down quick. Only problem was because of the damp conditions, the grass and rocks were slippery so a lot of was done buttock surfing!

At the bottom of Snowdon is checkpoint 1 - time to re-fuel, replenish water bottles and put on some dry clothing.

After a short stop it was off to scale Elidir Fawr which is also know as Electric Mountain as it houses a fairly impressive energy plant.

Time arrived at the summit 10:15am.