Climbing legend on summiting Everest 18 times: ‘I've a wife and kids, I've no plans of dying on a mountain'
Kenton Cool, who holds the record for summiting the world's highest peak, is coming to NI to tell his story. Here, he talks about the beauty and danger of his chosen pursuit, and how late Co Down climber Noel Hanna was 'one of the big characters' on the scene.
British climber and mountain guide Kenton Cool has summited Mount Everest 18 times, a world record for any non-Nepali.
Quite a feat considering that following a fall in Wales in 1996 at the age of 23, he was told by doctors that he would never climb again. Thankfully, that wasn't quite the case and he is set to visit Northern Ireland next month to tell his remarkable story.
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