<P> The youngest person to climb the Old Man is Edward Mills, who was 8 years old when he completed the climb in 4 hours 55 minutes on 9 June 2018, to raise money for the charity Climbers Against Cancer as his mother had terminal breast cancer . He was accompanied by his trainers, Ben West and Cailean Harker . </P> <P> There are seven routes up the stack, the most commonly used of which is the original landward facing E1 (Extremely Severe). A log book in a Tupperware container is buried in a cairn on the summit, as an ascensionists' record . As many as fifty ascents of the stack are made each year . </P> <P> Roger Holmes, Gus Hutchinson - Brown and Tim Emmett made the first BASE jump from the stack on 14 May 2008 . Hutchinson - Brown died 11 days later during a jump in Switzerland . </P> <P> On 10 July 2017, Alexander Schulz completed a highline walk to and from the summit, at 137m above the sea on a line 180m long . </P>

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