Stùc an Lochain, one of the two munros Daniel climbed to complete his round. Photo: G Laird CC-BY-SA-2.0

Stùc an Lochain, one of the two munros Daniel climbed to complete his round. Photo: G Laird CC-BY-SA-2.0

A nine-year-old boy walked into the record books this weekend as he summited two Perthshire mountains.

Glaswegian Daniel Smith became the youngest person to ascend all 282 munros, beating the previous record of Cumbrian Ben Fleetwood, who achieved the feat aged 10.

Daniel and his dad Mark ticked off the two Glen Lyon peaks Stùc an Lochain and Meall Buidhe on Saturday.

The schoolboy began walking the hills at the age of three and summited his first 3,000-footer when he was six.

Mark Smith has accompanied his son on all of the trips, which include the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Skye Cuillin, a rock climb graded either Very Difficult or Moderate, depending on the route taken.

Daniel told STV before the successful ascents that he thinks about what is going through his father’s mind on the mountains. “I think about the views and how my dad is doing and if he’s a bit tense about what’s going to happen at the top, if it’s going to be cloudy or sunny,” he said.

Daniel added he doesn’t often get scared.

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