{"id":2671,"date":"2026-04-18T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:04:18","slug":"david-parrish-scottish-ultra-trail-runner-died-at-35-while-attempting-to-break-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"David Parrish, Scottish ultra-trail runner, died at 35 while attempting to break a record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>The scene is set on the official race website: \u201cThe Cape Wrath Trail is an unofficial, unmarked long-distance walking route of exceptional wild beauty, linking Fort William to Cape Wrath, the most north-western point of mainland Scotland. Stunning and challenging, this trail, aimed at experienced hikers, takes in some of Scotland&#8217;s most spectacular scenery. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore in this landscape as beautiful as it is dangerous that David Parrish died last weekend. This Scottish ultra-trailer was trying to beat the speed record on this Cape Wrath Trail, which he completed completely independently. A week before taking part in this dizzying challenge, he explained a little about what awaited him on Instagram.<\/p>\n<h2>A prize pool for mountain rescuers<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cCape Wrath Trail, unassisted. (Departure) April 2 around 8:10 a.m. About 362 kilometers, 11,481 m of elevation gain (if all goes as planned), Parrish explained. I considered all possible weather conditions while remaining optimistic and light-hearted. I fully expect this to be by far the most demanding undertaking of my life, both physically and mentally. \u00bb<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-instagram\" data-vendor=\"instagram-RDffthKi\">\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>David Parrish had started this race a few days after having his bachelor party (and before, therefore, his wedding). He took part in this incredible challenge to support the Scottish Mountain Rescue by launching a fundraiser. This Friday, more than \u00a330,000 had been raised (around 35,000 euros).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene is set on the official race website: \u201cThe Cape Wrath Trail is an unofficial, unmarked long-distance walking route of exceptional wild beauty, linking Fort William to Cape Wrath, the most north-western point of mainland Scotland. Stunning and challenging, this trail, aimed at experienced hikers, takes in some of Scotland&#8217;s most spectacular scenery. \u00bb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}