ACE TOM SCALING ALL NEW HEIGHTS

Romans star moves mountains for charity

- Mark Stillman

PEDAL POWER: Tom Smith is scaling the height of Mount Everest on his bike for charity

TOM SMITH has scaled the top of Bath City’s goalscoring charts this season – now he’s reached the summit of Mount Everest by bike!

The combination of a smart indoor trainer and GoZwift app meant the 22-year-old could take part in an vEVERESTING Challenge from the kitchen of his Swindon home.

Smith has earned a place in the vEVERESTING’s Hall of Fame for his efforts, where it took him 13 hours 36 minutes to climb 8,894 meters, burning nearly 7,000 calories following a 6.45 am start.

“You have to climb Alpe Du Zwift eight and a half times,” the 17-goal striker told The NLP. “I’d never cycled more than three hours before so I was heading into the unknown!