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.”
His father Matt Burrow, 38, a project manager in the NHS, said that when his son told him about his idea, he “tried to explain the reality of what climbing Mount Everest truly meant”. Speaking to the PA news agency, Mr Burrow said: “It was his dream and ambition and as parents, you do not want to see that ambition die, so we wanted to harness it.
“So we said, why don’t we start Oscar on this journey by picking 12 UK mountains that if you added them all up from where you start to where you finish on every mountain, would be of a similar height to that of Everest.” So far, Oscar, who has interests in rock climbing, mountaineering and Bear Grylls, has reached the summit of six mountains.
