Shaw teacher taking on monumental challenges to inspire pupils set to release book

A primary school teacher from Shaw who has climbed some of the world's tallest mountains, run ultra marathons in both the arctic and the Sahara Desert, and trekked through the jungles of Borneo to inspire his students has written a book about his adventures.

Steve Hill MBE, the deputy head at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, has been doing the incredibly difficult challenges for 13 years, raising over £100,000 for various charities along the way.

What started out as a way to show his pupils anything was possible as long as you worked hard enough has now become an annual adventure, with each one aiming to outdo the last.

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Now, after years of inspiring the students within his classroom, Mr Hill has written a book, outlining all of his adventures and his favourite memories from each one.

"It's very surreal, I find it very hard to believe," said Mr Hill.

"Hopefully people will enjoy reading it, I've been asked about writing a book many times and you just shrug it off, 'yeah whatever I haven't got the time'.

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"Then when lockdown came someone contacted me and said they could help me write it and I thought I've got a little bit more time on my hands so why not.

"Now 18 months down the line there's a book."

The title, "What's Next Sir", came