Schoolboy James sets sights on Everest conquest

CARRAUNTOOHIL measures 3,409 feet; Slieve Donard in the Mourne Mountains is 2,798 feet high; Mount Snowdon stands at 3,560 feet; Scafell Pike at 3,205 feet and Ben Nevis, is 4,409 feet tall.

They are statistics many seven year-olds know from their work at school.

But one Waterford city youth knows just what it’s like to actually scale to such heights. And now the avid climber, who has just turned eight, has set his sights on scaling Mount Everest.