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Postby Genghis Khant on Tue May 22, 2007 10:31 am

I will be climbing Snowdon on Saturday to raise money for charity. Me in my wheelchair and seven of the boys to help haul my arse up the 1086 metres to the summit. We've modified my spare chair into a kind of off-road rickshaw and have been training on some of the mountains around here in preparation for the challenge.

Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales and, for those of you who'd like to place it on the British Isles map, is in Gwynedd. On Saturday fifteen teams will be on the mountain, each with a wheelchair user, to raise money for the BackUp Trust. BackUp is a registered charity which helps people with spinal cord injury to regain the confidence, independence and motivation which paralysis takes away. I work voluntarily for them as a wheelchair skills trainer.

This same event last year was held on Helvellyn in the Lake District (Cumberland), and my team came in fifth place. This year we aim to come first and would like you to help us by visiting https://www.bmycharity.com/seabadgers and making a donation (cheeky, I know, but there's no harm in trying).

I've attached some pictures of us on our practice runs for you to see.

Thank you,

Rhys

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Postby Anarkistsdream on Tue May 22, 2007 10:38 am

Good luck, brother... And have fun!!!

That looks like a blast...

And, for some reason, you remind me of C3P0 right after he was made king of the Ewoks... *grin*
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Postby Genghis Khant on Tue May 22, 2007 10:40 am

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Climbing Helvellyn last summer to raise money for the BackUp Trust
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Postby Anarkistsdream on Tue May 22, 2007 10:44 am

How far away are these mountains from your home, dude?
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Postby Steel Panzer on Tue May 22, 2007 11:02 am

cool! wish i could do that to!
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Postby Syzygy on Tue May 22, 2007 11:08 am

Should be quite an interesting day.

I Hope you have a good time doing it, I'm sure you will.
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Postby Stopper on Tue May 22, 2007 12:54 pm

Climbing Snowdon would be hard enough to do, without doing it in a wheelchair. Good luck!
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Postby gethine on Tue May 22, 2007 1:01 pm

i can't be arsed to walk up the hill to llantrisant without getting a taxi. (another welsh place name that means pretty much nothing to 99.9% of the people on this site)
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Postby diddle on Tue May 22, 2007 1:39 pm

I would love to donate but i can't, too young! :(
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Postby The Weird One on Tue May 22, 2007 5:35 pm

Good luck!

Hope you have a good time :!:
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Postby jnd94 on Tue May 22, 2007 5:47 pm

Good Luck Dude!

Hope you do well - on the mountain and raisin money. It sounds like a good cause.
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Re: On the scrounge

Postby Phobia on Tue May 22, 2007 5:49 pm

good luck, I have climbed Snowdon before, so good luck to you on that :)

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just thought I point out I have been on that footpath before lol


I have also climbed Cadair Idris, beautiful place and great scenery :)
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Re: On the scrounge

Postby Genghis Khant on Tue May 22, 2007 8:54 pm

Anarkistsdream wrote:How far away are these mountains from your home, dude?


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This is the path up to Pen Y Fan, the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons, about 35 miles from my house. The peak you can see is Corn Du and Pen Y Fan is just out of sight behind it.


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These two are on Bwlch Y Clawdd, between the Ogmore & Rhondda valleys. 25 miles from me now, but I grew up just 2 miles down the road.


Helvellyn is 300 miles away and Snowdon is 160 miles.
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Postby Genghis Khant on Wed May 23, 2007 7:57 am

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Us pegging it down the hill to Nantymoel (from Treorci)
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Postby flashleg8 on Wed May 23, 2007 8:20 am

Genghis Khant wrote:Image
Us pegging it down the hill to Nantymoel (from Treorci)


Best of luck mate!

The least you could have done is give the guys a lift on the way down!

Seriously that looks hard as hell - you're a braver man than me. If it gets too hard, keep my donation and go to the pub instead!
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Postby Genghis Khant on Wed May 23, 2007 8:32 am

flashleg8 wrote:Best of luck mate!

The least you could have done is give the guys a lift on the way down!

Seriously that looks hard as hell - you're a braver man than me. If it gets too hard, keep my donation and go to the pub instead!

It is hard as hell, but really exhilarating. It's a magnificent feeling being on top of a mountain again after 7 years in a wheelchair.

Cheers man.
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Postby alex_white101 on Wed May 23, 2007 8:33 am

why are you in a wheelchair?
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Postby Genghis Khant on Wed May 23, 2007 8:35 am

alex_white101 wrote:why are you in a wheelchair?

I broke my neck doing dirt jumps on my mountain bike.
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Postby Genghis Khant on Thu May 24, 2007 3:22 am

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Getting up the last few metres to Corn Du


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The view north from Corn Du.
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Postby Genghis Khant on Mon May 28, 2007 8:26 am

We won!!

On Saturday morning me and 8 of the boys set out from the community centre in Llanberis and raced up to the summit of Snowdon. We got to the very top and back down in exactly 3 hours - 30 minutes faster than the team which came second.

Thank you to everyone who sponsored us.

I'll post some pictures here when I get some, in the meantime read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6693933.stm
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Postby jnd94 on Mon May 28, 2007 8:36 am

Genghis Khant wrote:We won!!

On Saturday morning me and 8 of the boys set out from the community centre in Llanberis and raced up to the summit of Snowdon. We got to the very top and back down in exactly 3 hours - 30 minutes faster than the team which came second.

Thank you to everyone who sponsored us.

I'll post some pictures here when I get some, in the meantime read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6693933.stm


awesome! CCers will prevail everywhere!
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Postby Guiscard on Mon May 28, 2007 12:27 pm

Genghis Khant wrote:We won!!

On Saturday morning me and 8 of the boys set out from the community centre in Llanberis and raced up to the summit of Snowdon. We got to the very top and back down in exactly 3 hours - 30 minutes faster than the team which came second.

Thank you to everyone who sponsored us.

I'll post some pictures here when I get some, in the meantime read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6693933.stm


Good job chap. :D
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Postby Genghis Khant on Tue May 29, 2007 8:10 am

Here we are coming up one of the easier stretches on the path up Snowdon.
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Wonderful scenery, but we didn't hang around to take it in.
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We were team no.6 out of a field of 15, 3 of whom didn't start and one team's chair broke on the mountain forcing them to pull out.
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A quick drink and a stretch before the final nasty bit up to the summit. We'd started out from that lake visible on the left.
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...only 2 metres to go,
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Getting onto the very summit.
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The highest building site in Wales (they're building a new cafe) and one of the boys has got his Flashleg8 t-shirt on.
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Postby Alexwales93 on Tue May 29, 2007 8:18 am

Da iawn ti!
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Postby Genghis Khant on Tue May 29, 2007 8:45 am

Alexwales93 wrote:Da iawn ti!
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Ansawdd, diolch Alex. Roedd hi'n galed iawn, ond yn teimlad ardderchog i bod ar ben yr Wyddfa, yn enwedig gyda'r ffaith bod ni wedi curo'r Saeson hefyd. Rydyn ni'n mynd nol lan flwyddyn nesaf i amddiffyn y teitl.
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