Jamie Aarons: Woman sets record for scaling Scotland's Munro mountains

A pistillate has acceptable a caller clip grounds for scaling each the mountains successful Scotland higher than 3,000 feet (914m).

Ultra-runner Jamie Aarons finished the situation successful 31 days 10 hours and 27 minutes, breaking the erstwhile grounds by much than 12 hours.

There are 282 mountains that conscionable the benchmark and they are known collectively arsenic the Munros.

The situation saw Aarons ascend 459,000 ft, the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest 16 times.

She besides ran, cycled and kayaked betwixt each of the Munros, covering a full of astir 932 miles (1,500km) connected ft and astir the aforesaid region by bike.

Aarons, who works arsenic a societal enactment advisor for the Scottish government, is primitively from California but moved to Scotland successful 2005.

She began the effort astatine Ben More connected the Isle of Mull connected 26 May and finished astatine Ben Klibreck successful Sutherland successful the Scottish Highlands astatine 16:57 BST connected Monday.

The erstwhile grounds for a self-propelled Munro situation was held by erstwhile marine Donnie Campbell, from Skye. He completed the feat successful 31 days, 23 hours, and 2 minutes.

The clip taken by Aarons was besides little than fractional the erstwhile grounds for the fastest woman, acceptable successful 2017 by Libby Kerr and Lisa Trollope, who completed the situation jointly successful 76 days and 10 hours.

She has climbed each the Munros connected 2 occasions before, the archetypal clip alongside spouse Andy Taylor and the 2nd clip with Mr Taylor and the couple's 2 dogs.

As good arsenic breaking the record, Aarons has raised £14,000 for World Bicycle Relief, a foundation which provides bikes to children successful poorer nations to summation their mobility and amended entree to indispensable services specified arsenic schools, markets and wellness clinics.

Speaking astatine the start, she said: "My travel volition instrumentality maine crossed the magnitude and breadth of Scotland, crossed oversea and lochs, from distant glens to the highest constituent successful the United Kingdom; and crossed much miles of bog than I attraction to deliberation about."

She added that raising wealth for the bully origin would assistance to "motivate maine done the pugnacious miles".