Hodge Jones & Allen

Housing solicitors take on 24 hour hiking challenge

2nd August 2010

 

Eleven solicitors, trainees and paralegals from the Hodge Jones & Allen Housing team in Camden London, completed the 3 peaks challenge last week, scaling Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mt Snowdon in just over a day!

 

Exhaustion, motorway miles, sleep deprivation and changeable weather were key issues to combat, however team spirit and leadership won through.

The team, (pictured, from l to r, at the foot of Ben Nevis) Amy Rought-Brooks, Rosie Lough, Anna Moore, Ian Greenidge, Sophie Bell, Caroline Brosnan, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Farzana Chowdhury, Satvir Sahota, Hannah Britz and Waleke Muntali, have raised £2000 for the firm’s charity of the year, Spinal Injuries Association.

 

Travelling by minibus (a round trip of 1350 miles from Camden), the team arrived at 5pm, Wednesday in Fort William, Scotland and started a five hour ascent to the top of the highest of the three peaks (1344m).

 

The gruelling schedule invited the next ascent, a mere 980m, 5 hour hike up and down the highest peak England could offer. Located 10 miles inland from the coast in the Lake District, they commenced the climb at 6am following little if no sleep in the back of the bus.

 

After a hassle free trek along the A55 in North Wales that afternoon the team were presented with the final hurdle, 1100m high Mt Snowdon, arriving back in time for last orders and traditional Welsh hospitality.

 

Fair to say, everyone slept soundly that night…and the next. If you would like to sponsor the team, you can visit http://www.justgiving.com/hja3peaks.