Bad parenting Pt, V

A baby of 14 months became the youngest person to be rescued from England’s highest mountain after his family embarked on an “insane” climbing expedition.

Rescuers were called out when David and Sally Naylor, who had decided to climb Scafell Pike in the Lake District with their baby son and his five-year-old brother, got into difficulty.

They set out at noon on Monday, reaching the 3,210ft (978m) summit four hours later.

During the descent the Naylors lost their way and, as darkness fell, they found themselves stranded in low cloud in an area close to a 200ft ravine.

The alarm was raised at 7.30pm by a fellow climber who noticed that the family, from the village of Lynstone, near Bude, Cornwall, had failed to return to their car.

A team of 42 mountain rescuers and two search dogs were immediately scrambled and the Naylors — cold and wet but uninjured — were located just before midnight near the treacherous Piers Gill path.

The five-year-old boy was exhausted and had to be carried off the mountain on a stretcher.

His baby brother was the member of the family least affected by their ordeal. He was strapped into a waterproof papoose on his father’s back and had slept throughout most of the evening.