NOT TOO OLD AT 40.
BEN NEVIS MARATHON.
LONDON, July 29. “I think’ this disposes of the idea that a man is too old at 40,” remarked Charles P. Wilson, an unemployed shipwright, 40 years of age, alter he had won the 15-mile marathon from Fort William to the summit of Ben Nevis and back. Wilson is a married man with four children. His time was 137 minutes 25 2-5 seconds —only seven minutes 41 seconds more than the record established by Ewen Mackenzie, the Ben Nevis roadsnian, in 1903. Mackenzie was the first to congratulate Wilson. “I think the record can be broken, though not by many minutes,” Wilson said. “I lost my way temporarily in the mist 500 ft from the summit, and reached the top in 85 minutes.” Ben Nevis (4406 ft), in Invernesshire, Scotland, is the highest mountain in Britain. The cloud-line is generally about 3000 ft.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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