Pen y Fan
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Pen y Fan".
Oct 8, 2026
Wellness Without Barriers
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24:46Gemma DaviesGUEST
I'm able, when I'm having good days, to do the things that I enjoy that I used to do.
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24:51Gemma DaviesGUEST
So I go on hikes with my partner and we climb the Penny Fan in Wales.
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24:55Gemma DaviesGUEST
And it's not a massively high mountain, let's say.
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24:59Gemma DaviesGUEST
Technically, if I was a whale person, it probably would have taken me an hour.
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25:04Gemma DaviesGUEST
But it took me nearly three hours to do it.
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25:07Gemma DaviesGUEST
So I was up and back down and I put it on social media, my achievement, because I've always wanted to climb the penny fan always.
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25:14Gemma DaviesGUEST
And I got a lot of criticism for it.
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25:16Gemma DaviesGUEST
I got a lot of, but you don't look sick.
Emily Webb | I Wanted To Quit At The Start
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43:52Emily WebbGUEST
Yeah
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43:52GarethHOST
... like that's a hard thing to train for, isn't it? Unless, like you say, you're actually on the course or got similar around you to be going up a big steep mountain with like rocks and scrambling or Pen Y Fan to coming back down.
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44:04GarethHOST
Would, how would you run down? It's a totally different type of, it's a different event again.
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44:08GarethHOST
And it is, like I say, I've watched, uh, YouTube videos of it and it's like, it just looks mental some of it, where you're going over and up and down.