Catherine completes three peak challenge

[JustAnotherWhinger]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwydwgy7125o

I don't know how anyone in the public eye keeps going with all the negative nellies commenting online. There really is no way to win, much better to never complain and never explain.

Looks like it was pretty murky on top of Ben Nevis! It's always a long hard slog up and down there at the best of times, I'm always full of admiration for everyone who does the 3 peaks. I'm off to make a donation.

@measuretwicecutonce am so pleased you asked how you could do this challenge and thankfully posters have answered with useful info. Am looking forward to you linking your charity fundraising site on this thread so we can all support you - count me in for at least a tenner. Which charity will you be fundraising for? Once you say, I’ll happily set up a thread for your endeavours. good luck!

Worth repeating.

Some of the bitchiness on this thread is off the scale.

@measuretwicecutonce

You don’t need training and equipment love. Just stamina. Like I said earlier, my brother did it with a bunch of uni mates. Hired a minibus and one of them did the driving. Do it in high summer and drive when it’s dark. Let us know how you get on.

Get a friend/ family members to drive you, between mountains or do it as a team with friends/colleagues, hire a minibus and have a designated driver/take it in turns. Get some good walking gear from mountain warehouse and do fitness training and hill walking for a few months before. Thats what most people do, including me.

I know you basically want to have a dig but whilst very physically hard (particularly on the knees) it’s really easy for ordinary people to do. As proven by the thousands of people who do it each year.

So if you want to do it, crack on.

It is open to all though. Anyone can do the three peaks if they're fit enough and competent in the mountains.

There are thousands of people raising millions annually for cancer charities by taking part in numerous challenges. I'm doing one myself. Like Catherine I'm grateful to have survived so far and want to give something back, especially because I've lost family members to the cancer I've had.

Maybe you'd like to do a fundraising challenge yourself and make a positive contribution rather than sniping?

Thousands of people manage this every year..tens of thousands...

Stop finding excuses

Well I couldn’t do it as I have rheumatoid arthritis among other issues, but @measuretwicecutonce if you are fit & no real health issues, there is no reason why you can’t do it. If 30,000 a year do it then you can do it also. Make it a personal goal.

Of course anyone can do it. What on earth makes you think they can’t? It’s just big hills. With open access.

Have you done it?

She really doesn’t. Not compared to the late queen who had more children than her.

I’ve done it. 10 years ago admittedly but still done it. It’s tough.

You said well done and great she’s raising money? I thought saying wow was insulting to other cancer sufferers and she wasn’t “reading the room”?

Children to whom HMQE2 was a famously involved and devoted mother…

I've had cancer.
I really like the way Kate talks about how it changes you forever. That has certainly been my experience. Other people tend to think it is over, behind you etc but even though I forge on with everything it is somehow still with me. It's great to hear a public figure express this.

Oh we can’t criticise the future Queen in any way, shape or form and those of us who do so are cold hearted meanies.

The late queen was as involved and devoted as she could be. Times were different then.

what an achievement!

the late queen was head of state. Kate will never be head of state. Two very different roles.

Damned if she does damend if she doesn't.

@noonamesi don’t think the RF do read the room and are very reactionary. Take the recent tax information being released, they are under pressure so the PR machine is in over drive. Anyway I hope many others get the opportunity and support they need to do this challenge if they want to, hopefully this will raise awareness!

Just one tiny step that Katheryn could take if she wanted to support everybody with cancer would be for her husband not to charge McMillan and cancer research £30 million in rent over the next 10 years for the offices they own like they have for the previous decade
I bet they don’t

Oh does this mean you’re not planning to do it yourself after asking how to?

*Catherine