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At Sir Ranulph’s request Kenton Cool and Dr Rob Casserley took the Marie Curie Cancer Care flag to the summit of Everest.
Kenton Cool said: “I’m pleased that we got up there, pleased that we got the flag up there, but it was a horrible summit. I feel completely beaten up. I think partly it’s disappointment [...]
Team Marie Curie arrived back in Kathmandu late last night after a helicopter ride from Pheriche in the Khumbu Valley.
Many helicopter crashes have been caused by the thinner air at Base Camp – so teams walk down the valley to a safer altitude.
Team Marie Curie walked for six hours, at first over massive boulders and [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie will today begin their journey back to Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, and then back to the UK.
The journey to Kathmandu involves a seven hour walk down the valley to an altitude that is safer for helicopters to land.
It took seven days to walk up to Base Camp and [...]
Having returned to Base Camp, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has vowed never to climb a mountain again.
Sir Ranulph said: “In my life I don’t normally ever try anything more than once. When I switched from polar treks to climbing mountains I had two challenges in mind. One was the highest mountain in the world – Mount [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes arrived in Base Camp just after 5pm this evening, having spent four hours walking down through the Khumbu Icefall. Sir Ranulph left Camp 4 just after breakfast and made the journey down in one day.
Of his aborted summit attempt Sir Ranulph Fiennes said: “I wanted an extra day to recover in Camp [...]
Having abandoned his summit attempt due to exhaustion Sir Ranulph Fiennes is now heading down to Base Camp.
At 12.45am (Nepalese Time) this morning Sir Ranulph Fiennes arrived back at the South Col suffering from extreme exhaustion. He left Camp 4 to head down the mountain this morning.
At 1.30pm Sir Ranulph radioed down to base camp [...]
Exhaustion has forced Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE, to abandon his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
At 12.45am (Nepalese time) the Base Camp radio cracked into life with the news that Sir Ranulph was back at the South Col, having turned back due to exhaustion.
Sir Ranulph’s summit bid began at 7am Friday morning when [...]
At 5pm UK time the Marie Curie press office had word that Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie have left for the summit.
Watch this space… more updates later.
For the last two months, Liz Scarff and David Carter have been filming, writing copy, taking photographs and sending the latest coverage direct to the UK from the world’s highest mountain – Mount Everest.
In addition to producing the editorial content, journalist and photographer Liz Scarff is producing and directing the project from Everest Base Camp, [...]
Having successfully reached Camp 4 the next stop for Sir Ranulph Fiennes is, quite literally, the top of the world.
Team Marie Curie left Camp 3 this morning at 7am (Nepalese time) to head into the death zone. They reached their destination on the South Col around 1pm.
Speaking from his tent, sounding breathless and croaky, Kenton [...]
