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After reading about some of the exotic walk locations and challenge walk/fell runs in the Rambling tent I just had to ask.

I start the bidding with Ben Nevis, aged 58 3/4!

Scafell pike-but that was about 35 years ago. Anything higher has involved chair lifts!

I was thinking it was psychological, duh

@gillymary i was thinking psychological too! x

Kinda feel like I am still climbing and it is called life ... Don't get me wrong life is lovely but peppered with arduous things to conquer or prevail and then the sad bits

Not sure if it's the highest I've climbed, but I've climbed Table Mountain at least 100 times - 1,086 metres (3,563 ft) at Maclears Beacon (highest point) although often the routes I've been on wouldn't be quite that high.

I absolutely LOVE climbing to a view. Somehow it looks so much better when you've had to work hard to get there.

12,198 feet, Mount Teide in Tenerife. Starting from 7,500 feet in the caldera, admittedly, rather than sea level! Age 57, I think. Up and down in under 5 hours.

Definitely felt the thin air at that height...

If height gained over a 24 hour period counts, 27,000 feet over the 42 peaks of the Bob Graham round of the Lake District in 1990!

Hi @gillymary and @CandiceMarie, the mountain of life would be a whole interesting new topic but not in the Getting Sweaty section - or then again

[Debs]

A few despite remaining relatively unfit! Mt. Gower on Lord Howe Island was the most challenging, 875m from sea level and incredibly steep, hauling yourself up in ropes but the view is to die for.
Mt Snowden, and the Annapurna circuit, about 5400m. I wasn't fit when I set off, by golly I was fit by the end!!!

@Debs Mt Gower, wow that's a feat. I did the goat cave climb that was bad enough. I drive up and down the Blue Mountains does that count.

When I was 21 I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at 5895m (or 19341feet)

It was a 4 day trek up and down and at the time probably the most mentally and physically challenging thing I have ever done! So maybe it was my psychological mountain too??

It is hard to remember why, maybe because the lack or oxygen caused a fuzzy head but I remember feeling very sick and very cold!!

For years I said never again but since the memories have faded I have been thinking about doing it again!! Or maybe not....

The highest is about 5600m, Kala Pattahar, a detour on the way to Everest base camp. Know what you mean about being fit afterwards @Debs, for a short while after our return we deliberately walked some big hills as they felt so easy compared to the usual trudge. Apart from that we've 'done' most of the big British ones and a few French and Italian ones too, although not for a couple of years now. I think you're idea about driving them is a good one @Wineoclock .

Someone did get a car up the Scottish mountain Ben Nevis, there are photographs.

Mount Snowdon, not sure how tall that is?

I've been up various mountains in Peru when hiking to Macchu Picchu. I went with Scope and we didn't do the Inca Trail but rather an alternative route where we didn't see any other foreigners until the last day when we joined up with the Inca Trail. I'm guessing that of them all, perhaps Wayna Picchu (one spelling, there are various!) might not have been the tallest - coped this from Wikepedia:

Huayna Picchu is about 2,720 metres (8,920 ft) above sea level, or about 360 metres (1,180 ft) higher than Machu Picchu. BUT it certainly was the steepest climb we did! I don't know whether I had just adjusted to the altitude by then or whether some of the other peaks we climbed were taller but it wasn't the worst one for breathing at any rate.

All I know for sure is that the photograph I have of my friend and I sitting right at the very top, with nothing behind our backs but that VERY long drop, is enough to make DH turn green The ascent was tricky but the descent was really terrifying - an inch at a time down Inca steps worn down so smooth that they were like trying to scrabble on your hands and knees down a slide of horizontal drainpipes On our way up we met one poor young man in our group - one of the fittest in fact - coming down. That was NOT good, as he was ashen faced. There was no way we could turn around either? Glad I made it and what an experience.

Kinda feel like I am still climbing and it is called life ... Don't get me wrong life is lovely but peppered with arduous things to conquer or prevail and then the sad bits

Well said @gillymary..good description of this funny old thing called 3 D life! X

Hats off to you @spanner! Are you the 1st poster than needed oxygen!
I'm another Snowden climber. Been up Mount Teide and Table Mountain, but in the cable cars.
My personal Everest was giving birth to over 11lbs without any pain relief. I take every opportunity to boast about that one.