Sean Rothery still rising to new challenges at 86-years-old

A retired lecturer’s near fatal Alps accident and a recently completed 2,300k trek has prompted a memoir that says we are all to "passive and accepting" of self imposed limitations when it comes to getting older, writes Colette Sheridan.

WHEN writer and former mountaineer, Sean Rothery, attended a mandatory Dublin Institute of Technology retirement session in 1993 — he was a lecturer — a doctor advised the attendees to take daily ‘long walks’ of 30 minutes.

Rothery was not impressed. The group was “so passive and accepting,” says 86-year-old Rothery.