Brecon Beacons

Here is group B with Steve Ironside. In the background is Corn Du 883m, Pen y Fan 886m, Cribyn 795m, and Fan y Big 719m

As the sun went down, the still waters reflected the clouds brilliantly

Moody clouds over the Beacons

Zoe McLean (A to Z Expeditions) on Pen y Fan

What do you think about this? Suddenly the summit of Pen y Fan has got this name plate... !!

The Team from Denmark.. Nikolaj, Josephine, Martin, Christian, Anna and Jonas

The Danish team heading off the side of the hill..

Nikolaj and Jonas deciding where they are...

Team C wild camping on their last night..

More reflections..

This was the last D of E exped for the season. Working for A to Z Expeditions, I was working with Steve and Bryony on this open gold qualifying exped. We had some interesting groups to work with. I enjoyed working with the Danish group - they definitely did things their way.. They brought all their food from Denmark and Germany. The Danish food is over twice the price of similar here !! The food included staples like tinned mackeral and tinned cheeseburgers! They were definitely well prepared, after all they had come a long way to get success.. In Denmark they told me the land is all flat and so they were looking forward to the 3 Dimensions of the Beacons. They loved it, and on the last morning they chose to get up at 4.30am to set off at 6am to walk into the sunrise in the hills... They had the longest rests of any team I've known - always getting their stoves out and cooking something lol.

The weather was mostly kind, but cold - reminding me of winter that is just around the corner now :) ... Winter, here we come... I'm thinking about ice axes already..