And a bit more iconoclasm . . .
I have never understood the attraction of doing a challenge that hundreds or thousands of other people have already done. The "Three Peaks" business is even worse than the BGR. Why don't people have the imagination to devise their own challenges? Like Mark Rigby with his solo, unsupported Cairngorms round, or Stolly with his 60 ascents of Pen-y-Ghent in 60 days?