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On top of the world: Max’s dad calls peak after him

A Scottish academic has made the first ascent of a mountain in the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan and named it after his teenage son.

Stephen Taylor, a lecturer in marketing, tourism and languages at Edinburgh Napier University, climbed a number of uncharted mountains while investigating mountaineering tourism.