Does doing something "for charity" give you special rights?

[Beebo]

I was up Snowdon earlier this month on a beautiful day.
The queue for a photo at the top was silly so I didn’t bother. It did seem like people were spending a long time trying to take a perfect photo. There should be a queue for photos and a queue just to touch the top.
This is a photo taken earlier this month from almost at the top, took me 5 seconds to take and no one in sight, although there were probably people immediately in front of me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That it formed showed that those in it had acknowledged they'd have to wait.

Only if you subscribe to Insta photo fakeness. There really is no need fir a queue for the trig point. It is madness to do so.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

I was up Snowdon earlier this month on a beautiful day.
The queue for a photo at the top was silly so I didn’t bother. It did seem like people were spending a long time trying to take a perfect photo. There should be a queue for photos and a queue just to touch the top.
This is a photo taken earlier this month from almost at the top, took me 5 seconds to take and no one in sight, although there were probably people immediately in front of me.
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At one amazing place in the Andes Altiplano I visited was easy to get to (not far from a city) and loads of people doing the selfie and I was standing waiting for a clean photo of the object (not interested in photographing some couple I've never met with small bits of object showing. Whilst waiting somebody came up and said along the lines "I understand and you have more patience than me and, take loads of photos as people leave and next couple move in and there's a plug-in for Photoshop that will take all the images and cut, chop, merge, heal different bits of different photos to make one without the selfie people". I haven't researched into it but made me feel a bit less of a weirdo.

Some people are so obsessed with selfies they are even want strangers in tneir photos. In India I visited a lot of different active religious buildings and on a surprising number of occasions Indian people wanted a selfie with me - I always politely declined as I don't want my photo pushed up to social media ... (always at Hindu Mandirs).

 

[Dogtrousers]

Years ago when I was planning some big ride or other I hatched a plan to raise money by saying "If you find that someone doing something difficult inspires you to give to charity, feel free to use my ride as a reason to do so - on the condition that you don't tell me".

I'm not sure what point I would be trying to make, and I didn't do it anyway. Now my rides are too short and uninspiring.

 

[Alex321]

The ones I have seen are often mostly getting donations from fellow sailors or people who live close to the sea anyway

and tourists - but whatever


As far as Three Peaks is concerned - I would be more inclined to donate to the ones that sail and walk
basically they start in Caernarfon and the walkers walk up Snowdon and back - i.e. from sea level
then when they are back it has to be timed for the boat to sail up the Menai Straits - which is tidal and very fast running

The walkers rest/sleep/recover while they sail up to the Lake District and then the walkers walk - again from sea level - up Scafell Pike

and back

then sail up to Scotland - not sure of the location

and the walker go up Ben Nevis and back
clock stops when they get back on board

That seems like a real challenge!!!

They actually start in Barmouth, and sail to Caernarvon for the start of the first run

Fort William is the final point.

And that cannot be done in a day. The winners the last time it was done (2022) took 4 days and 4 hours elapsed time.