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School children take to the summit of Steep Down
Ref : 09/089 : Date : 22-10-2009
A group of 52 school children from Sompting Village Primary School climbed
Steep Down in Sompting wearing pedometers to count their steps. Nearly 3000
steps later they reached the summit.
The children are doing a project on extreme sports and wanted to climb a mountain. So on 12th October they set off to climb Steep Down with great enthusiasm. Steep Down is 149 metres high and this will be compared to Everest which is 8848 metres. It took 2980 steps to reach the summit. How many would it take to reach the summit of Everest?
The walk was organised with the school by Adur Council’s health walks organiser, Liz Timmer. She said: “I was very impressed that the children were in such excellent spirits throughout the walk and by the time they got back to school they had done almost 12,000 steps which is over four miles!
Well done!
Their teacher Stephen Chadwin said: “ It was another really good walk as it was a beautiful day and the children were full of energy and excitement.”
Pupil Jonathon said: “It was interesting and fun’ and Aaron said ‘It was adventurous and I was tired out at the end.”
Charlie, the schools mascot, was quite chuffed with himself as he has also conquered Ben Nevis, Snowdon, the Old Man of Coniston and he was one of the first to the top of the recently classified mountain in Wales. Mynydd Graig Goch.
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