All-vegan team completes UK 3 peaks challenge!

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MEDIA RELEASE: All-vegan team completes UK 3 peaks challenge!

 

From 13:00 3rd May to

12:25 4th May 2009, an all-vegan team completed the famous UK Three Peaks

Challenge. They successfully climbed the highest mountains in Wales (Mt Snowdon), England

(Scafell Pike) and Scotland

(Ben Nevis), in less than 24 hours. They

walked, ran and limped some 25 miles (40 km), climbed around 10,000 feet (3,050

m), and drove nearly 500 miles between the three countries, averaging less than

two hours sleep!

 

Fortunately, however, the

climbers did have one important advantage. All are members of the Extreme Vegan Sporting

Association, which means that as well as being naturally skilled at doing

extremely silly things, they are committed vegans, and therefore enjoy certain important

advantages over meat-eating mountaineers, such as higher antioxidant status

¯ which speeds exercise recovery. The vegan guarana tablets also helped, as did

the super-comfy vegan boots, energising vegan sheese and flapjacks, supplied by

their kindly sponsors

on this all-vegan expedition. Non-vegan food or equipment was banned.

 

Although the free vegan

food was admittedly a major motivation, the main reason for climbing these

mountains was to raise money for Animals Count ¯ a UK

political party for people and animals. The team raised around £1,900, which helped

Animals Count contest the EU elections on 4th June 2009. This was the first

time a UK

political party for animals will have contested these elections (the results

will be out tomorrow – 8th June). By doing so Animals Count aims to

increase the consideration given to animal issues by all political parties.

 

Photos and a video of

this event have just been added to the story online at www.vegan3peaks.info. The

snowstorms on the summit of Ben Nevis,

Scotland, are

particularly dramatic.

 

Andrew Knight

Extreme Vegan

Sporting Association

Showcasing vegan fitness through novel means of risking life and limb!

www.vegan3peaks.info

www.extremevegansports.org