Hanging out together

In a departure from your usual running and mountain biking, athletes were required to abseil, cave for 20 minutes, pull a Range Rover, kayak and orienteer their way around the arduous course. It was a format that caught out even the most experienced Coast to Coast athletes and allowed a pair of Lindisfarne College sixth-formers to be the first competitors home. That was thanks, largely, to the map-reading skills of champion orienteerer Sam Eames, who guided schoolmate Matt Harper around the course with consummate skill.