N 56.79671°, W 05.00356°
Ta daaaaaaaaa!
We made the Ben Nevis visitor centre car park by about twenty past nine and by half past we'd set off, and what a day for it! The early mist soon burned off and apart from a few wispy clouds the giant stood naked for our entire ascent. It was hard, though. Stu did really well - especially given the heat - until about the two-thirds-of-the-way-up point where he all of a sudden started to look like it was all a bit too tough: but then he sometimes can't make it all the way round the Quaker field either.
A stop for food re-energised him but we still had to soften the pace a bit. Part of the problem for him was the constantly punishing stony/rocky terrain. I had proper pumps on and I felt every edge so can't imagine how uncomfortable he must have been.
I'm sure he sensed I felt sorry for him and he worked me over: he not only ate all of his own food, but a huge portion of mine too. Good job I'd taken a sack-full.
It was cold on the top but it gave up utterly amazing views, and the snow buntings were there to boot. The descent, as always, was punishing for knees, feet and quads.
So that's a big Palmares bag for Stu, he's now done the Yorkshire three peaks, been to the extreme northern, southern, eastern and western points of Great Britain's mainland, been to every country in the UK, as well as Eire, been to the awkward-to-reach Scilly Isles, done Land's End and John O'Groats, and now topped out on the GB three peaks of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis.
Not that he seems to care much...
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