Globe-trotting youngster, 8, becomes youngest Brit to visit all seven continents

Little Jamie Meconi has visited North and South America, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Africa and present Antarctica. He began travelling the satellite earlier his archetypal birthday

An adventurous eight-year-old lad has go the youngest ever Brit to sojourn the world’s 7 continents.

Intrepid Jamie Meconi bagged the awesome grounds aft helium arrived connected Antarctica’s immense snow-covered crystal expanse earlier this month. The pint-sized traveller, who has visited 85 countries, began circumnavigating the globe with his mum, Hayley Meconi, 45, earlier his archetypal birthday.

His globe-trotting has besides taken him to North and South America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Africa. He has planted thenar trees successful Borneo's rainforests, helped physique a schoolhouse successful Tanzania and sipped blistery cocoa successful beforehand of Paris’s Eiffel Tower.

And the “world-schooled” youngster has besides kept up with his studies by speaking with scientists aboard an expedition vessel successful the South Atlantic Ocean. Jamie, from Preston, Lancs, said: “Visiting each continents has been amazing. Antarctica was truthful overmuch amusive camping successful the snowfall and seeing truthful galore penguins.

“It was acold determination truthful I deliberation I privation to spell determination blistery next, possibly Africa. But we are having a Christmas astatine location first.” He added astir his favourite acquisition truthful far: “I loved going connected safari successful the Serengeti and seeing the large five. I besides got to acquisition surviving arsenic a Masai warrior and that was an astonishing time.”

Mum Hayley said the brace were inspired to statesman exploring the globe aft the decease of Jamie’s dad, Danny, erstwhile helium was conscionable six months old. Hayley said: “Our travel with question began 8 years agone with the astir tragic of starts erstwhile Jamie’s dada sadly gained his angel wings astatine conscionable 36 years young and Jamie was lone six months old.

“I person watched my small quality turn into the astir fantastic and benignant small lad and I americium truthful incredibly arrogant to beryllium his mum. Jamie's adventures person seen him works trees successful the Borneo rainforest and to assistance physique a schoolhouse In Tanzania.

“We person built a full beingness of memories unneurotic and present we stock much precious moments with my caller hubby too. Life is not ever perfect, but we are and ever volition beryllium our perfect.”

Hayley managed to money their adventures aft founding Making Travel Pay, a vacation agency, with her adjacent friend, Hayley Light. She had antecedently worked a gruelling nine-to-five occupation but feared she would not person capable clip to attraction for James arsenic a azygous parent.

But the occurrence of this concern has allowed her to jet-set astir the satellite - portion raising her lad astatine the aforesaid time. Hayley, who has since remarried, said: “I was moving afloat clip and had a agelong commute to enactment successful unreserved hr traffic.

“Jamie had already mislaid 1 genitor truthful I wanted to guarantee I would beryllium contiguous to perceive his archetypal words and to spot him instrumentality his archetypal tiny steps. I discovered a mode wherever I could crook my passionateness for question into a wage cheque.”

Hayley and Jamie reached his last continent, Antarctica, by travelling aboard the HX Hurtigruten Expeditions ship. But contempt being hundreds of miles from Britain, she said Jamie was inactive capable to support up with his superior schoolhouse studies.

Hayley said: “Aboard the vessel heading for Antarctica they person the astir specializer probe laboratories and apical scientists. So Jamie is having his subject lessons connected the unfastened oversea and volition soon get to witnesser the melodramatic effects of clime alteration connected Antarctica for himself.

“We had ever tried to acceptable our travels arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable astir the British acquisition strategy and schoolhouse year. But it proved intolerable to do, hence wherefore we person decided to ‘world school’ Jamie.

“He present has the champion of some worlds with a idiosyncratic tutor to assistance him with his maths and English past learning from those we conscionable connected our adventures.”