UKC

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-28567227

Madness...

In reply to SteveoS:
This is a better link: http://www.ukhillwalking.com/news/item.php?id=69085

In reply to SteveoS:

Madness? THIS IS SPROUTA!

sorry.

In reply to davidbeynon:

I dunno

I think it is a sproutstanding achievement....

In reply to rackandruin:

I'd be tempted to tell passers by "it was a cabbage when I started"

In reply to ThunderCat: more likely 'I was a cabbage when I finished'

In reply to SteveoS:

This is an incredible achievement. I could never have a sprout that close to my mouth. Mind you, he's leaving it a bit late to cook it if he's going to have it at christmas - it's less than 5 months to go and it isn't boiling yet

In reply to SteveoS:

Nothing wrong with trying to push a sprout up Snowdon with a nose, but I think there's going to be places where there are rocky steps where it's going to take ages to get the sprout to nose balance just right in order to overcome the step with the sprout, it's going to take lots of trial and error and the sprout will probably fall back down to the bottom of the rocks many times before the nose finally gets it right and manages to push it up the rocks and then what about the big cairn at the top? the sprout will have to be pushed by the nose to the top of the cairn and that could take weeks to do?

In reply to SteveoS:

I wonder if his attempt was affected by wind?

In reply to SteveoS:

I bet he picked it up and threw it when nobody was looking.

In reply to SteveoS:

I bet he's wishing it would sprout wings

In reply to SteveoS:
Get the light just right and he might experience the phenomenon of

Broccoli spectre

Well, maybe not, but it's brassically the same

In reply to SteveoS:

The face guard and RaceFace body armour are outstanding.

I guess it's a bit different to doing Tough Mudder for charity though!

In reply to SteveoS:

But is he going to leave it at the top?

In reply to SteveoS:

Seems fair enough. Sprouts have pushed me up more than one hill.

In reply to SteveoS:

I'd like to see him try it over Crib Goch! :@)

In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:

He could have put it in the bin in Llanberis and just walked up.

In reply to SteveoS:

That's nothing; I'm going to do it with a pea.

In reply to FesteringSore:

When you have done that will somebody be able to have a pea at the top, ahem

In reply to SteveoS:

Who is Sprout?

In reply to SteveoS: In these enlightened times, we are obliged to recognise that different people can have different realities, and that what seems sensible to you and I may not seem quite so sensible to someone else. Our realities may be different, but we are all equally valid in our own. Consequently, we shouldn't discriminate against such people, or describe them as bonkers or mad. We should recognise their condition and use the correct terminology to describe them, which is Alternative Reality Sane-Equivalent.

Happily this politically-correct non-discriminatory phrase has caught on quite quickly, though most people tend to use the acronym.

T.

In reply to sbc_10:


I believe it was sponsored by Terence and Philip...

In reply to SteveoS:

Wonder how long it would take him to carry on pushing it up Scafell Pike and the Ben, including the bits in between? He'd need quite a big stock of sprouts given that they'd rot fairly quickly unless it was a winter attempt.

In reply to Dave Hewitt:

Might be like rolling a snowball.
Gradual accretions of sheep cack and all that. Doesn't then matter if it rots in the middle,

A bit like a vegetarian scotch egg really

In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:


No.

Kinder Sprout.

In reply to llechwedd:


Is that like a sprout where you unscrew it and there's an awkward-to-assemble toy inside?

In reply to Dave Hewitt:

Kinder than these

youtube.com/watch?v=uM8lFtzrWfU&

In reply to SteveoS:


Madness? No. Hats off to the guy. But Snowdon, ha that's nothing. I'm going to push an avocado up Everest BACKWARDS in 2016!!!!!!!!! Anyone like to sponsor me? All proceeds (after the 40000 quid trip and avocado cost) will go to my retirement plan - it's a worthy cause.

Edit - PS - the avocado will be going backwards, not me. And I'll be using oxygen starting in Lukla.

In reply to SteveoS:

Seriously, anyone know his progress?

In reply to FesteringSore:

Here's his website: http://www.willthemadfoolmakeit.co.uk/

There's one video on there so far, after the first day...

In reply to SteveoS:

His nose is taped up.

How does he smell?

In reply to Ste Brom:


Not as bad as if he had eaten it....