Oldies and goodies
Captain Tom Moore, 99, raised more than £26 million by walking 100 laps of the garden of his old people’s home. Who
are the oldest people to have achieved various feats?
— Yuichiro Miura climbed Everest aged 80 in 2013.
— Dr Fred Distelhorst climbed Kilimanjaro at the age of 88 in 2017.
— Mike Cross, 60, is the oldest person reported to have walked to the South Pole, in 2003. Buzz Aldrin visited it (and fell ill there) at the age of 86, but he was flown there as a tourist.
Long gone to press
This is The Spectator’s 10,000th issue since first publication in 1828, making it Britain’s longest continuously published magazine. There are newspapers that were established even earlier, however:
Berrow’s Worcester Journal — published irregularly until 1709 and continuously since then — 1690
Wiener Zeitung — 1703
Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung — 1705
Stamford Mercury — 1712
Gloucester Gazette — 1722
Gazzetta di Parma — 1735
News Letter (Belfast) —1737
Yorkshire Post — 1754
Print run
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