‘YOU’RE JUST DOING EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO SURVIVE’: HOW A QUADRIPLEGIC FORMER RUGBY PLAYER CONQUERED A HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN

‘YOU’RE JUST DOING EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO SURVIVE’: HOW A QUADRIPLEGIC FORMER RUGBY PLAYER CONQUERED A HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN

Stranded overnight on a Himalayan mountain without water, food or tents in temperatures that plummeted to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit), Ed Jackson and his team took it in turns to keep each another awake in case they fell asleep and did not wake up again. Jackson was attempting to scale Himlung Himal, a 7,126-meter peak in Nepal close to the Tibetan border.

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