The Great Outdoors

“It all started with my wife having Alzheimer’s… it knocked me for six”

hen Nick Gardner arrived at the summit of Cairn Gorm, his final Munro, he was greeted with a long honour guard of walking-pole-brandishing fans. It was well-deserved: the 82-year-old has spent the past two years completing the Munros to raise funds for the Royal Osteoporosis Society and Alzheimer’s Scotland. His daughter Sally has since nominated him to Guinness World Records as the oldest person to climb

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