24h Challenges

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Ben Nevis 24h Record

“First, I came across a story of a teenager who had done it five times in 2018. Then I heard about the record by Charlie Anderson. In 2006, he completed Ben Nevis 6 times, up and down.”

A record that stood for 15 years.


Ben Nevis summit at the top, Keswick, Moot hall bottom left, Pen Yr Ole Wen summit bottom right

UK Big 3

Bob Graham Round, the Paddy Buckley Round and the Charlie Ramsay Round are known to mountain runners as three of the most difficult 24-hour challenges in the world. Each Round is a long distance classic.

Article from Oban Times by Fiona Scott


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My Tranter Round

High ridges of the Mamores range, Grey Corries, Aonachs, Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis. First completed in 1964 by Philip Tranter.

Start/ finish: Glen Nevis Youth Hostel
18 munros + 1 (Sgorr an Iubhair – delisted as a Munro in 1997)