While most parents were lucky to get a half-hour Joe Wicks workout out of their children during lockdown, one 11-year-old was working towards a rather higher ambition - to climb the most iconic mountain in the Alps, the Matterhorn.
Fuelled by Kendal Mint Cake and playing Eminem rap songs in his head, on July 8 Jules Molyneaux became the youngest person to scale the 4,478m mountain that straddles the Italian-Swiss border. He achieved his goal thanks to a rigorous homemade fitness program, which he followed with his father, after his school closed in March.
“It was train, train, train, six days a week,” says Jules, who lives in the Cairngorms National Park, where his parents own a gin distillery. “Some days it was chin-ups, an abs and core workout, followed by going up and down the stairs a hundred times. Other days we’d go out for a 30km hike.” And what of school work? “Well I did a bit,” he jokes.
Bravo to Jules on such an achievement.
Pix and 95% of text originally reblogged at my one remaining Tumblr.
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