Welsh 3000's walking challenge

More extreme than the National Three Peaks Challenge, the Welsh 3000's involves climbing all 3000 foot plus peaks in Wales within a given time. Given the difficulty of this Challenge and the lower popularity that other challenges, there is no official set time - however, typically most would attempt the Welsh 3000's Challenge in twenty-four hours, experienced climbers should set themselves twelve hours.

Welsh 3000's map

The walk should be started by camping at the top of Snowdon, and then starting with the dawn sunlight descend the Snowdon peak, via Garnedd Ugain and Crib Goch - a very exciting and potentially dangerous ridge walk.

From here you should descend to the left of Crib Goch towards the two campsites. At this point you can meet up with a support car and swap your larger pack for a small hydration pack, before heading to Nant Peris to climb Elidir Fawr, followed by Y Garn, the Glyders and Tryfan. Again at the end of this stretch, you can meet your support car, fill up with water and pick up more food.

This is then followed by the Carnedd walk, bagging Pen yr Ole Wen, Carnedd Dafydd, Yr Elen, Carnedd Llewelyn, Foel Grach, Garnedd Uchaf and Foel-fras - the Welsh 3000's Challenge is marked complete when you reach the marker on the peak of Foel-fras.