A bee-keeper plans to scale twin peaks 6,459 miles apart.
Today, Quentin Henderson will set off for the summit of 3,232 ft high Nevis Peak on the Carribean island - followed, on Friday, by 4,409 ft high Ben Nevis. They are expected to take around 11 hours.
Mr Henderson, who is originally from Edinburgh, plans to board a flight to Gatwick Airport tonight (wed) after completing the first climb. Arriving in London tomorrow morning, Mr Henderson will catch a train to Fort William.
Mr Henderson, who has lived on the island for 28 years, was inspired to do the trip by his encounter with the Queen's baton after the relay reached the . West Indies islands of St Kitts and Nevis in the run up to Glasgow 2014.
He said: "The idea is to raise money and publicity for the Federation of Nevis and St Kitts by climbing Ben Nevis with the mud of Nevis Peak on the calves of my legs and planting a Nevisian flag on the Scottish mountain so it appears like a seamless climb."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article