Climber, 82, completes all 282 of Scotland's Munro mountains
An 82-year-old man has completed his attempt to climb Scotland's 282 Munros - mountains higher than 3,000ft.
Nick Gardner, from Gairloch in the Scottish Highlands, set himself the challenge after his wife Janet went into full-time care. He was devastated when she developed Alzheimer's and osteoporosis and wanted a challenge to keep him going. The grandfather-of-four began in July 2020 and reached his final summit, Cairn Gorm, on Saturday afternoon.The former physics teacher had never climbed a Munro previously.After scaling Cairn Gorm, he has now climbed more than 500,000ft , the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest about 17 times.Mr Gardner said he had developed immense respect for mountains while completing his challenge."If you start trying to conquer them, they will get their own back.
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