Airport News
Southampton airport team conquer Three Peaks Challenge
Thu, 16 Jul, 2009
A team of firefighters from Southampton Airport are celebrating after completing the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge.
The team of eight men manages to ascend the highest peaks in the UK, which are Snowdon in Wales, Ben Nevis in Scotland and Scafel Pike in England, in just 17 hours and ten minutes.
Captain of the team, Stuart Carpenter, said: "Our goal was to achieve a time of 20 hours or below to get the gold medal, which had eluded us in previous years.
"However, with some serious training in the months leading up to the event we actually managed to get a platinum medal, and came 11th out of 112 teams."
Scaling the mountains bagged the boys £1,000 which will be fittingly co-donated to the Fire Fighters Charity and the Salisbury Hospital Burns Unit.
The ascent was also noteable for the fact that it was 14 minutes quicker than a time which was set by a group from Gatwick Airport in 2005.