A group of five walkers completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks climb on Saturday 17th June – two from Bewick Crescent Surgery, Margit Howard, Practice Nurse, Judith Metcalfe, Office Administrator, Jennie Metcalfe from the PCP, Chris Robson ex Newtonian, Andrew Musson from Bishop Auckland. It was a great day, but very hard work, and we are so pleased we did it, trying to raise money for the two MRI Scanners for Darlington and Bishop Auckland Hospitals It was Margit’s idea to do this early in the year, we trained together initially, Roseberry Topping was the first followed by several long walks in the wind and rain. Pen y Ghent was our next collective challenge which seven of us did in a cold wind rain.
We finished that walk thinking if it’s like that on the day we won’t be taking it on. Jennie and myself went to do the other two peaks, Whernside and Ingleborough, as the others could not make it. By this time there was just three of us left, plus my brother Chris, who lives in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He had his own peaks to practice on until the event. However Margit’s brother in law Andrew said he would join us, as he had done it before. Jennie and I managed a time of 10.5hrs, Chris 11.5hrs and Margit and Andrew 15 hours.. However I do feel that it’s not the time that matters, but the sheer determination of Margit to follow this through and complete what she had set out to accomplish. Judith Metcalfe
