{"id":218,"date":"2010-05-30T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolewitts.org.uk\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-05-30T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T16:11:30","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"The Three Peaks Challenge 6-7 July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksone1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9\" title=\"Three Peaks Challenge - The Start\" src=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksone1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Witts' team start the Three Peaks Challenge Against Brain Tumours\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksone1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksone1.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaiging against Brain Tumours - Nicole Witts&#39; team, led by husband Gary Witts, get the long 24 hours underway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Three Peaks Challenge &#8211; in which participants scale the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales and England in the space of 24 hours &#8211; is one of the most gruelling fundraising efforts you can undertake. So it was a natural place for Nicole Witts and her team to start their fundraising drive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5 team members did this gruelling challenge on my behalf &#8211; my husband Gary Witts, brother-in-law Steve Rock and our friends Matthew Piercy, Alan Carter and Keren Millea. They were in a team of 8 and accompanying them was our friend Creighton Varney who was the designated driver!<\/p>\n<p>They started Ben Nevis at 5pm on Sunday 6th July and were down by 10.20.. just 20 mins later then the planned time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_10\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Three-Peaks-21.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10\" title=\"Three-Peaks Challenge - On the Summit\" src=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Three-Peaks-21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Witts Three Peaks Challenge Against Brain Tumours - On the Summit\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Three-Peaks-21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Three-Peaks-21-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Three-Peaks-21.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Witts&#39; Team Reach the Summit in Freezing Fog<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then came Scafell Pike.. (Oh dear.) Started at 4.50 am. Extremely heavy rain and fog\/mist made visibility really poor..and the team got a fraction lost. This was tricky, but after 3 hours they were back on track. By this time Gary (Gary Witts, Nicole&#8217;s husband) had hurt his knee and was limping.. they came down at 11.20am.<br \/>\nLastly Snowdon at 5pm &#8211;\u00a0 back down at 10pm to end the walk. Very sore, achey joints,\u00a0 a few blisters and hubbie with a limp. Everyone suffering from severe tiredness but really happy to have achieved it as a team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_11\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksfour1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11\" title=\"Nicole Witts' Three Peaks Challenge - The Finish\" src=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksfour1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Witts' Three Peaks Challenge Against Brain Tumours - The Finish\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksfour1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3peaksfour1.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Witts&#39; Team - Successful and Safely Back Home<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Peaks Challenge &#8211; in which participants scale the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales and England in the space of 24 hours &#8211; is one of the most gruelling fundraising efforts you can undertake. So it was a natural place for Nicole Witts and her team to start their fundraising drive: 5 team members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[11,12,18,19,23,39,50,51,53,54,59,64,65,67,76,86,87,92,100,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}