'We climbed the UK's highest mountain in bare feet - it was emotional'

A daredevil trio climbed Ben Nevis barefoot - despite some fellow hikers branding the brutal feat 'stupid'. Matthew Finegan cooked up the plan to scale the UK's highest mountain without boots with hiking pals Sam Gradwell and Petar Antonijevic in January to raise charity cash.

Hardy hikers Matthew, 23, Sam, 22, and 25-year-old Petar ditched their trusty boots and spent a painstaking seven hours trekking 4,413 feet up the mountain on July 19th. After three hours of walking, the trio spent much of the final four hours crawling on their hands and knees when their battered feet could not take any more of the treacherous terrain.

In footage shared on social media, a grimacing Matthew compares trudging up the stony ascent

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