Three-year-old completes all 214 Lake District Wainwright peaks

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 8 Oct, 19:07 · Archive

Navy Moores, aged three, has become the youngest known person to complete all 214 Lake District peaks mapped in Alfred Wainwright's guides.

Navy Moores from Kendal, Cumbria, has become the youngest known person to complete the Wainwright Fells Challenge. The three-year-old scaled all 214 Lake District peaks mapped by Alfred Wainwright in his celebrated pictorial guides, completing the challenge in five months.

Navy covered a total distance of 510 miles with an ascent of almost 225,000 feet – equivalent to more than seven times the height of Mount Everest. He was accompanied throughout by his father Daniel, a businessman who has himself climbed Everest and cycled across the world, his mother Leanne Helm, and his siblings Jessica, aged fourteen, and six-year-old Oliver.

Navy completed the final peak, Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain, on Sunday. According to the Daily Mail, his father told The Times that Navy's interest in walking began as soon as he took his first steps, initially being carried in a child backpack before joining his older brother on foot. His parents decided in May to attempt the challenge after Navy showed enthusiasm for walking.

How it is being reported

• Boy, 3, 'becomes youngest person to hike Lake District's 214 famous peaks'A three-year-old boy is thought to be the youngest person ever to conquer all of the Wainwright fells - a famous group of 214 peaks in the Lake District.Sky News · 8 Oct, 14:53
• Master of the fells... aged three: Toddler bags all 214 peaks from Wainwright's guidesHardy ramblers dream of scaling all 214 Lake District fells mapped by Alfred Wainwright in his celebrated pictorial guides.Daily Mail · 8 Oct, 00:19

In this story: Navy Moores · Daniel Moores · Leanne Helm · Alfred Wainwright · Lake District · Kendal · Scafell Pike

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