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By Aisling Grace & Paul Byrne An eight year old boy is setting out on an expedition to reach base camp at Mount Everest. And young mountaineer Frankie McMillan has vowed to one day stand on the 5.5mile high summit of the world ’s tallest mountain. Frankie has been climbing with his mum Basia since he was a toddler. He has conquered more than 500 peaks, including Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain, when he was just four years old. The schoolboy has also taken on all 214 of the Lake District’s Wainwright fells. And last year he became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Olympus in Greece. N…

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