Jasper Dunsmore and his father Peter, 30, from Norfolk, hope to reach the summit of their final mountain – Ben Nevis – on Saturday.

A five-year-old boy is set to complete the Three Peaks Challenge – an “adventure” he took on with his father to support Prostate Cancer UK.

Jasper Dunsmore and his father Peter, 30, from Norfolk, hope to reach the summit of Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, on Saturday after successfully climbing Scafell Pike, in the Lake District, and Snowdon, in Snowdonia, earlier in the year.

They will begin the walk up the Scottish mountain at roughly 5am, and will give themselves 12 hours to finish it.

The pair completed the Scafell Pike hike on March 31, with one of the standout moments being when Jasper was given a medal by a woman also climbing the mountain, which he spoke about during a show-and-tell at his school.

This was followed by a presentation on the highest mountains in Wales and Scotland, which initiated the “father-son adventure” of taking on the Three Peaks Challenge.

“That’s what really sparked his interest,” Mr Dunsmore told the PA news agency. “He came home saying: ‘Can we go and do........

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