As you approach the summit of Ben Nevis there are a series of cairns to follow to make sure you don’t stray off the path and fall hundreds of feet down the aptly named ‘Gardyloo Gully’. We tackled the 3 peaks challenge in 2016, we started with Snowdon, then Scafell Pike and finished with Ben Nevis. I can still remember the exhaustion I felt as we were climbing Ben Nevis after 30+ hours with little sleep. It was close to midnight as we approached the summit. There was driving sleet and the visibility was so poor that it was only as you got to each cairn, that you could just make out the next. Each time I approached a cairn I thought this must be the last one, but as I got there, I could just make out the next one through the fog and rain. It seemed never-ending.
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As you approach the summit of Ben Nevis there are a series of cairns to follow to make sure you don’t stray off the path and fall hundreds of feet down the aptly named ‘Gardyloo Gully’. We tackled the 3 peaks challenge in 2016, we started with Snowdon, then Scafell Pike and finished with Ben Nevis. I can still remember the exhaustion I felt as we were climbing Ben Nevis after 30+ hours with little sleep. It was close to midnight as we approached the summit. There was driving sleet and the visibility was so poor that it was only as you got to each cairn, that you could just make out the next. Each time I approached a cairn I thought this must be the last one, but as I got there, I could just make out the next one through the fog and rain. It seemed never-ending.