Grant & Carl

About Us

Over the last couple of years your intrepid adventure heroes, Grant Wyatt and Carl Beetham, have thrown themselves head-long and head-first into various escapades including the UK’s most difficult mountain marathon, cycling Land’s End to John O’Groats, swimming all Lake District waters (yeah, failed that one!) and various marathons, quadrathlons & triathlons, culminating in successful Ironman attempts. Not to be outdone they’re at it again, only this time the silliness is of their own making and beggars belief in its, well, its silliness!

In any given year people up and down the land complete The Three Peaks where the largest mountains in each mainland country (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Snowdon) are travelled to and ‘bagged’ in a cumulative time of 24 hours. Countless cyclists indulge their passion for two wheels and undertake big distances, many finally cracking the 900 miles on the aforementioned end2end challenge. The real crazies take to the water and dream of swimming the channel. So, what about a bit of all three?

Yep, this year’s adventure is going to comprise The Three Peaks, cycling the 550 miles between them and throwing in a swim across (and back) Lake Windermere. Oh, and they’re doing it on a 1970s tandem that weighs as much as your average modern car, and all within a five day target. For the record, that’s 10,000ft of ascent & descent, 550 miles of cycling and a bit of a dip in freezing cold water that’ll still be under 10 degrees and it’s why they’re going to name it the ‘Tens & Fives Challenge’. Oh, and did I mention the five day target? On a tandem. In May.

Rather than burdening their trusty steel packhorse with any further weight than themselves they’ll be aided and abetted by drinki...er, training partner and all round good-egg, Ty Elleker, who’s taken a week off work to ferry the support vehicle around, mending punctures, cooking sausages and emptying colostomy bags as well as Tony Marsh, who says he'll do 'the running, some of the cycling, and maybe the swim', we reckon he'll do it all.

Now the rub! Oh yes, you’ve got to put your hand in your pocket and shell-out some of your hard-earned on their worthy ‘good cause’, the continued sponsorship of little Neve Dandy -www.stayclosetoneve.com - who has a shocker of a condition (Dravet Syndrome) and the more we can all support her and her family the better. Rest assured this task is not, by anyone’s stretch of imagination, a relative walk-in-the-park and every day is going to hurt. A lot. There’s a minimum of twelve-fourteen hours in the saddle each day before you even begin to think of the mountains and the lake. It equates to something similar to undertaking an Ironman each and every day, for five consecutive days, and every pound you donate will be more than paid for in their pain! So, without further ado, dig deep, cough-up and make Grant & Carl feel it’s almost worthwhile. Probably.