Can you conquer the UK’s three peaks?

12/28/2011 6:00 AM EST

Press Release

For immediate release: Wednesday 28 December 2011
Press contact: Marilena Patuto, Media Relations Officer, DD 0207 749 3720, Email:  

Can you conquer the UK’s three peaks?

Breast Cancer Campaign is calling on all fundraisers with a passion for the great outdoors to put on their hiking boots and set themselves a challenge for 2012 by signing up to its popular Three Peaks Challenge.

Running from the 13-15 July 2012, the Three Peaks sees participants attempt to scale the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales in just 24 hours to help the charity continue to beat breast cancer.

Renowned for being one of the toughest challenges in the UK, the Three Peaks is perfect for anyone looking for a new physical test. Participants will hike approximately 24 miles and climb and descend over 10,000 feet in just 24 hours.

It’s a challenge of endurance, adventure and most of all team work, as everyone pulls together to tackle the intense slopes of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon, ascending 3000 metres and sometimes even hiking in the dark.

Supporters need to sign up before April to take part and allow enough time to prepare, train and fundraise for the leading breast cancer charity.

Kelly Walton, Breast Cancer Campaign’s Events Executive, said: “Whether you’ve resolved to get fit, lose weight or be more adventurous in 2012, this could be the perfect challenge to help you achieve your New Year goals. Not only will participants have the experience of a lifetime, they’ll also be helping the charity continue funding vital breast cancer research.”

Further dates planned in 2012. For more information on this or any of Campaign’s UK Challenges please contact 0207 749 4114, email   or visit our website www.breastcancercampaign.org

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Photos: Participants on the Three Peaks Challenge

Notes to editors
• Participants are requested to register by the end of April 2012 by paying a deposit of £149 to Maximum Adventure who organise the challenge of behalf of Campaign. They will also be required to raise £600 minimum sponsorship in order to take part.
• Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure
• The charity currently funds 95 projects worth almost £16.5 million in 31 locations across the UK and Ireland
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women
• In the UK, around 48,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 130 a day
• The Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank, the UK’s first ever national breast cancer tissue bank is a unique collaboration with four leading research institutions to create a vital resource of breast cancer tissue for researchers across the UK and Ireland. Visit breastcancertissuebank.org
• Visit breastcancercampaign.org or follow us at twitter.com/bccampaign