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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Danielle Desouza

Six-year-old climbing 12 mountains in UK to help ‘poorly children go on holiday’

A six-year-old who is climbing 12 of the highest mountains in the UK and hopes to one day become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest said he wants to help “poorly children to go on holiday” through the challenge.

Six-year-old Oscar Burrow, from Lancaster, said he saw Sir Edmund Hillary climbing Mount Everest on TV at school one day and decided: “I want to be the youngest person to climb Mount Everest.”

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