Charlotte Nichols and Stuart Bates have raised more than £100,000 for charity due to their mammoth efforts.
“It was really hard, there were tears, there were points when we were like ‘oh, God’, but we finished it and it feels amazing to have done it,” Miss Nichols, a 21-year-old student doctor, told the PA news agency shortly after finishing.
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