A WOMAN who aimed to raise £600 for charity has succeeded in her ambitions after completing the National Three Peaks Challenge.

Marilyn Goater, from Cippenham, completed the National Three Peaks Challenge and raised more than £600 for the charity CLIC Sargent.

If the challenge wasn’t already as difficult enough as it is, the extreme weather conditions meant that Mrs Goater’s group had to struggle through winds rising to 80mph, as well as extreme rain and darkness, as they plunged their way through the mountains in 27 hours.

The three mountains that make up the challenge are Scafell Pike, in the Lake District, at a height of 978 metres, Ben Nevis, in Scotland, at a height of 1344 metres, and Snowdon, in Wales, at a height of 1085 metres.

The challenge is to climb the three peaks in 24 hours, but due to adverse weather conditions, Mrs Goater’s group was lucky to climb them at all.

The funds money raised will go to CLIC Sargent, who care for children with cancer, and Mrs Goater said the money she has raised has made it all worthwhile.

She said: “It was such a struggle once we got to Scafell Pike because of the weather conditions, but we were lucky to go up as we were only one of two groups that went up, when there should have been 12 going.

“We’re lucky we went up when we did, otherwise we’d have not managed it.

“The charity is something that I looked at because a young girl who is in the same year group as my daughter has a tumour, and so doing something like this was a great motivation, to link the charity with the climb.

“I got a few bumps and bruises along the way, but with the money I raised, it’s made it all worthwhile.”

Mrs Goater and her friend Savita Rana will be hosting a fair at the Royal British Legion club in Cippenham on October 17, in a bid to raise more money for the charity.