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Aug 2021
Harrogate teenager completes Yorkshire Three Peaks as tribute to granny
A Harrogate teenager has completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge and raised more than three times her original target.
Leah Gresty climbed the mammoth Three Peaks with her partner in under 11 hours earlier this month, leaving more than an hour to spare.
She was raising money for the UK Sepsis Trust in memory of her grandmother who died of sepsis last September.
Her grandmother Elizabeth Simmonite was a former butcher and baker on Knaresborough Road in Harrogate.
Leah raised £1,115, more than double her original £300 goal. She hopes that her challenge will also hope to spread awareness of the disease.
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The Three Peaks challenge involves climbing Pen-Y-Ghent, Whemside and Ingleborough peaks in under 12 hours.
Leah said:
Sepsis is a blood infection which is responsible for 48,000 deaths every year in the UK.
Leah is still accepting donations on her JustGiving page.
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