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EPIC CHALLENGE:\u00a0Isabelle climbing up the mountain<\/p>\nEPIC FEAT: Isabelle Lauder pictured with support dog Peggy when she was in training and staying with the family<\/p>\n
An eight-year-old has her head back out of the clouds after tackling Wales\u2019 highest peak for charity.<\/p>\n
Isabelle Lauder and her dad Tom walked – and in places, climbed – the 3,560ft Mount Snowdon, and have so far raised almost \u00a3700 for Sheffield-based national charity, Support Dogs.<\/p>\n
The good cause trains and provides specialist assistance dogs to help autistic children, as well as adults affected by epilepsy or physical disability, to live safer, more independent lives.<\/p>\n
The Lauders, who live in Wombwell, Barnsley, have been volunteer doggy foster carers for Support Dogs since 2022, looking after the wonder dogs when they are not \u2018at school\u2019 at the charity\u2019s training centre.<\/p>\n
EPIC CHALLENGE:\u00a0Isabelle climbing up the mountain<\/p>\n
Kings Oak Primary School pupil Isabelle turned eight on July 30, celebrating with her family with a theatre trip to see Wicked in London, and two days later she scaled Snowdon.<\/p>\n
Isabelle\u2019s mum, Fran, 38, who works for South Yorkshire Police and is also mum to 10-year-old Oliver, said: \u201cIt took five hours to get up – it was quite a tough route, called Crib Goch, and involved some physical climbing, rather than just walking. They took a much easier route down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had set off at 7am and it was pretty dry and not too hot – they couldn\u2019t have asked for better weather and they took lots and lots of sweets. It was pretty windy at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI\u2019m very proud of her, and she didn\u2019t even seem to have any kind of aches or niggles the day after. A typical eight-year-old, she bounced straight back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isabelle said: \u201cIt was hard. I would do it again but not Crib Goch.<\/p>\n
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CHALLENGE CONQUERED: Isabelle at the top of the mountain<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hardest part was all the steps going up, and then a path with more steps. My dad joked that I was close to breaking down.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that her motivation was a certificate for completing Snowdon, as well as for taking part in Support Dogs\u2019 Super Summer Challenge, which encourages its young supporters to take on a fundraising challenge during the six weeks\u2019 holidays.<\/p>\n
The family have looked after loveable Labs Spot, Buster and Peggy, who are now fully-qualified autism assistance dogs, Frank, who has been matched with a little girl on the charity\u2019s autism assistance programme and Stardust, nicknamed \u2018Dusty\u2019, who is still in training.<\/p>\n Tom, a 41-year-old operations manager, has previously taken part in Support Dogs\u2019 annual abseil and also paddle-boarded the 23-mile length of Loch Ness for the charity.<\/p>\n To find out more about Support Dogs, please visit www.supportdogs.org.uk<\/a> and there is still time to sponsor Isabelle, at www.justgiving.com\/page\/isabelle-lauder<\/a><\/p>\n Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EPIC FEAT: Isabelle Lauder pictured with support dog Peggy when she was in training and staying with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,12893,1620,91174,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-inyourarea-community","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-south-yorkshire","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115097076831152788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"TRUSTPILOT](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/trustpilot-web5.png\")
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