Steve Birkinshaw

Stephen Birkinshaw, born in 1968, is an English fell runner and hydrologist who from 21 June 2014 until 20 June 2019 held the record for the fastest run round the 214 Wainwright summits, at 6 days 13 hours. He was introduced to orienteering by his family as a child, completed the Bob Graham Round in 2005 in 17 hours 9 minutes, and won the Original Mountain Marathon in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2009. His Wainwrights run broke Joss Naylor's 1987 record of 7 days 1 hour 25 minutes and raised over 22,000 pounds for two multiple sclerosis charities, because his sister has the condition. He described it in his book There is No Map in Hell. Paul Tierney broke the record in 2019, and Birkinshaw later suffered chronic fatigue syndrome.