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When you have become the first and only Briton to climb through the death zone to reach the world’s 14 highest peaks there is only one thing left to do – move to the Lake District. On any chosen day, if you monitor the Instagram account of veteran climber Alan Hinkes, you will find him on top of a mountain somewhere in Cumbria, or climbing a frozen waterfall, ice axes in hand crampons on his rigid climbing boots. At 65 there is little sign of the outdoor expert slowing down, but then after more than 50 years in the wilds of the world it is very much his norm.

When you have become the first and only Briton to climb through the death zone to reach the world’s 14 highest peaks there is only one thing left to do – move to the Lake District. On any chosen day, if you monitor the Instagram account of veteran climber Alan Hinkes, you will find him on top of a mountain somewhere in Cumbria, or climbing a frozen waterfall, ice axes in hand crampons on his rigid climbing boots. At 65 there is little sign of the outdoor expert slowing down, but then after more than 50 years in the wilds of the world it is very much his norm.

RECORD-BREAKING mountaineer Alan Hinkes has reached another peak in his celebrated career after being made patron of Mountain Rescue Search Dogs.

A RECORD-breaking mountaineer has reached another peak in his celebrated career after being made patron of Mountain Rescue Search Dogs.