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UK: Six-year-old climbs highest mountain in North Africa
Mount Toubkal
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UK: Six-year-old climbs highest mountain in North Africa

| @indiablooms | 08 Sep 2024, 02:41 pm

A six-year-old girl from the UK has left people stunned after she climbed the highest mountain in North Africa.

The purpose of her climbing the top of the mountain will surely win hearts.

She is trying to raise fund for the hospital which saved her life when she was a baby.

Seren, from Carmarthenshire, is the youngest girl to climb Mount Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, her father Glyn told BBC.

The girl is now planning to climb the top of western Europe's highest mountain Mont Blanc as a part of the initiative to raise money for  Birmingham Children's Hospital.

"When I was a baby, I had a big lump on my neck and they helped me," the girl told BBC.

Glyn and Seren joined their guide to undertake the eight-hour trek at 40 C temperatures to reach Mount Toubkal base camp.

After staying there for the night, they commenced their journey to scale the mountain top the next morning.

Glyn said they had a 'brilliant' experience after reaching the top of the mountain.

Speaking on her upcoming plan to climb  Mont Blanc, the six-year-old told Mirror she was excited to be "seeing the snow".

Asked what she loves most about climbing, Seren replied: "I like spending time with my dad, and seeing the nice things when I'm at the top of the mountain."

Her father Glyn is a teacher by profession who also enjoys climbing mountains.

He told Mirror: "I have a boy and I've tried to take him up the mountains, he's not interested - but Seren loves it."

The girl claimed she trained for a week before reaching the top of Mount Toubkal.

Her father told Mirror: "I think it was a little more than a week."

Toubkal, also Jbel Toubkal or Jebel Toubkal, is a mountain in southwestern Morocco, located in the Toubkal National Park.

At 4,167 m (13,671 ft), it is the highest peak in Morocco, the Atlas Mountains, North Africa and the Arab world.

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