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• Who says hauliers aren't fit ? Limitless reserves of detertnination and courage drove DFDS Transport staff to beat an overconfident team of Royal Engineers to the top of Snowdon—while carrying an 11-stone multiple sclerosis sufferer in a wheelchair.
They carried Steve Hobson up the 1,085m high mountain through fog and mud in one hour fifty minutes.
It could have been the preclimb bragging of the army team that put the power in their boots. "We overtook the Royal Engineers at a height of 300m," says director (and team member) Declan Connolly. "Taunts from them, such as 'We'll see you in an hour' and 'We'll carry you clown' simply spurred us on to greater efforts to victory."
The carriers secured £27,000 in pledges of support for the charity Action and Research for Multiple Sclerosis despite falling several times. Two members who got lost were safely reunited with the team three hours later.