YOUNG MUNTAINEER

Shannon News, 14 September 1926, Page 4

YOUNG MUNTAINEER

A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY. HIGHEST BRITISH CLIMB. A Lancashire boy, aged six, is believed to be the youngest person to climb Scawl'ell Pike, the highest mountain in England, which is 3210 feet, in height. . This feat he accomplished with his grandfather, .who Is 60, his father, and his uncle. He is Stanley Pendlebury, of Leigh, Lancashire. On the way up to the mountain . Stanley and his companions met the Kenswick official guide, Mr. J. B. Wright, who was taking a party up to the top of Scawfell Pike. On learning that Stanley was going there too, and was not going to be carried any part of the way, h e said he would give the boy a shilling if he trict. His sister, who is only two and a-half years old, climbed to the top of Grange Fell and Latrigg, and looks like becoming another climber were at the top by 2.30 p.m. Stanley was the first of his party to reach the top, arriving at 1.5 5. He got his shilling before the others reached the top.

Stanley is a scholar at the Bedford Wesleyan School, Leigh. He says he will not be satisfied until he has climbed all the hills in the Lake iMslike the rest of the family.