OVER 2000 youngsters are spending the night under Dartmoor skies tonight (Saturday, May 6th ) now the annual Ten Tors Challenge is underway.

The event, which started to the roar of two military 105mm guns at 7.00 am this morning, sees small, self-sufficient teams spending two days navigating to ten nominated tors on 35, 45 or 55 mile routes, in this Army-organised event.

Alongside the Ten Tors, hundreds of young people with special needs also participated in the Jubilee Challenge. The participants, young people with both physical and educational special needs, enter the challenge as a team member or as an individual.

As with the Ten Tors, they are required to trek and navigate across northern Dartmoor to specified checkpoints on routes ranging from 7.8 to 15 miles.

The first brave challengers started crossing the Jubilee finish line just after 11am this morning with the first Ten Tors finished expected in around 9.30am tomorrow (Sunday) morning.