Category: Rock climbing

Experience: I’ve climbed Mount Everest 20 times

by The Guardian | Oct 23, 2026 | Life and style, Mount Everest, Mountaineering, Rock climbing, Sport, The Guardian | 0 |

In 1996 doctors told me I wouldn’t walk again unaided, but in 2022 I took the record for the most Everest summits by a non-SherpaI grew up in Slough, Berkshire, in a bungalow beside a farm. My father was a scout leader, and I...

Experience: I fell 12 metres while bouldering and smashed my pelvis into pieces

by The Guardian | Aug 21, 2026 | Life and style, Rock climbing, The Guardian | 0 |

It was clear it was broken. I could feel the bones grinding together as the paramedics strapped me to a gurneyGrowing up in Utah, I was so active that my parents nicknamed me “The Blur”. My older siblings introduced me to rock...