[Margaret Pilkington]

I went to the Isle of White a few years ago and walked up to the top of the Battery(it is a big hill that overlooks the lighthouse)...I wanted to get a good shot of the light house and figured it would be great from that vantage point. I was accompanied on my climb up there by an elderly couple...both fell walkers....both well into their seventies.
I was gasping like a stranded cod fish when we got to the top, they were hardly breaking sweat.
So age alone isn't a barrier to such pursuits...but you need to have a like minded companion...and mine isn't like minded.