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| Mountaineer Kenton Cool fulfils vow to carry Olympic medal to top of Everest | Mountaineer Kenton Cool fulfils vow to carry Olympic medal to top of Everest |
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| British mountaineer Kenton Cool, who climbed Everest for the 10th time last week, has released video footage of himself on the mountain's summit with the 1924 Olympic medal he took to the highest point on Earth. | British mountaineer Kenton Cool, who climbed Everest for the 10th time last week, has released video footage of himself on the mountain's summit with the 1924 Olympic medal he took to the highest point on Earth. |
| Cool, 38, carried the medal – one of several awarded to members of the unsuccessful 1922 British Everest expedition – to the mountain to honour a promise made by the expedition's deputy leader, Lt Col Edward Strutt, to take one to the summit. | Cool, 38, carried the medal – one of several awarded to members of the unsuccessful 1922 British Everest expedition – to the mountain to honour a promise made by the expedition's deputy leader, Lt Col Edward Strutt, to take one to the summit. |
| All of the 21 members of the British Everest Expedition in 1922 were awarded the Olympic medal for mountaineering at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, and Cool took a medal loaned to him from Charles Wakefield, the grandson of expedition member Dr Arthur Wakefield. | All of the 21 members of the British Everest Expedition in 1922 were awarded the Olympic medal for mountaineering at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, and Cool took a medal loaned to him from Charles Wakefield, the grandson of expedition member Dr Arthur Wakefield. |
| In the footage, Cool is seen breathlessly climbing the last steps to the summit. "Here we are," he says. "This is the final 50 metres … Eighty-eight years it's taken. This is it – we are on top of the world. And here is the medal. Arthur Wakefield's medal … it's amazing – we're there!" | In the footage, Cool is seen breathlessly climbing the last steps to the summit. "Here we are," he says. "This is the final 50 metres … Eighty-eight years it's taken. This is it – we are on top of the world. And here is the medal. Arthur Wakefield's medal … it's amazing – we're there!" |
| Cool's ascent came during a controversial season on the South Col route, which saw several deaths and controversial "traffic jams" of scores of climbers queuing on the route's fixed ropes. | Cool's ascent came during a controversial season on the South Col route, which saw several deaths and controversial "traffic jams" of scores of climbers queuing on the route's fixed ropes. |
| Cool is scheduled to carry the Olympic torch during the Olympic relay joining with two fellow Everest ascensionists: Chris Bonington, who carried the torch up Snowdon earlier this week, and Alan Hinkes, the first Briton to climb all 14 of the Himalayan mountains over 8,000 metres in height. | Cool is scheduled to carry the Olympic torch during the Olympic relay joining with two fellow Everest ascensionists: Chris Bonington, who carried the torch up Snowdon earlier this week, and Alan Hinkes, the first Briton to climb all 14 of the Himalayan mountains over 8,000 metres in height. |
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