Mental Fortitude: How To Reach Your Everest
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is the oldest Briton to have climbed Everest. He succeeded in May 2009 at the age of 65 and at his third attempt. The first had failed due to a heart attack he had near the summit and the second due to extreme exhaustion.
The fact that he had had heart-by-pass surgery in 2003 appears incidental. Except that within three months of the operation he completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.
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