Growth in the 40 mile club

The average number of walkers reaching Kirk Michael (a little under 40 miles) between 1974 and 1995 was 33.

Compare that average with the last four years:


2005 - 300
2006 - 442
2007 - 376
2008 -317

So even on a "bad" year when the weather caused so many people to call an early halt to their walk, there were 10 times as many people who reached Peel as over the 22 year period!