Last Month we met two Coastguards from Yorkshire, they are members of the Skinningrove Rescue team in the Sector of Whitby, one of them, Paul Waugh was in the process of running the 3 peaks, Snowdon, Ben Nevis and Scafell and attempting to complete this in 24 hours plus 3 further peaks in Yorkshire the following day. We met him and his colleague Mick at the Sector Base in Corpach which is where we kept in contact on VHF during his run up the Ben.
We met Paul on his way down and by now he was behind schedule as he had met two climbers who had become ledge bound and were too frightened to move. Paul assisted them to below the snow line and continued his decline. This meant that he was late setting off for the next leg to Scafell in the Lake District. Previously when scaling Snowdon in thick fog Paul again assisted in an incident, this time a tragic one. He came across a climber whose colleague had fallen. Once again the Coastguard radio was put to use and the emergency services alerted. Sadly the climber had died as a result of the fall.
This particular run was to raise money for the Cleveland Trust for the Blind and he has so far raised £700.

Paul's work for charity is extraordinary, and he is obviously very fit as he has run 13 London Marathons and 15 Great North runs all for various charities. Paul has so far raised money for 58 different charities over 16 years. Variety also comes with fund raising such as pulling a 25 ton Tornado aircraft along the runway and running coast to coast and back in two days and climbing the equivalent of Everest by ascending his highest Yorkshire peak 14 times ! Well done Paul