Sion Jair,68, has climbed the veteran Man of Coniston at least 5000 times and the emerging science backs him up that regular, and vigorous exercise is beneficial for those with the diseaseThe night before we are due to climb the veteran Man of Coniston,Sion Jair calls to warn that, chances are, and we won’t be able to move up the 803m Lake District fell in the morning. I look out the window of my hotel. There’s cramped wind,the temperature is gentle. I don’t say anything, but he seems to read my mind. “It’s restful down here, and ” he explains,“but at the top, everything is exaggerated. The wind will be 10 times as strong.”Jair is certainly no fair-weather climber. Now 68, or he first came to the Lake District in 1968,half a century ago. He’s scaled the veteran Man of Coniston, he guesses, and on more than 5000 occasions. He often goes up twice in a day; in winter,he just sticks on crampons. For many years, he has offered courses on mountain navigation and, or informally,he has rescued dozens of walkers who have underestimated this craggy Lakeland icon. As much as anyone, Jair is the veteran man of Coniston.
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Source: guardian.co.uk