Mount Toubkal: Girl, 6, climbs north Africa’s highest mountain

Seren and Glyn flew to Morocco in mid-August, travelling from Marrakesh to a village at the bottom of the Atlas Mountains.

With their guide, Glyn said they made an eight-hour walk in temperatures of more than 40 degrees to Mount Toubkal base camp, where they spent the night, before leaving early the next morning.

They reached the summit the next day, which Glyn described as “a tough hike with narrow paths on slippy vertical scree”.

“The heat was the biggest challenge… but once we got to the top it was brilliant. There were about 20 people there who had followed her story on social media, and they were giving her a big round of applause,” he said.

Asked how long she had trained for the trek, Seren said “a week”, before Glyn laughed and said: “I think it was a little more than a week.”

He said they had been training for about a year, which included night time walks up Pen y Fan in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, also known as the Brecon Beacons.

“We were able to replicate some of the track. Obviously the weather wasn’t the same, but the terrain was,” he said.