An Australian will conquer Mont Everest

Scott Doolan, 28 years, wants to be the first one to rally the bas camp of the Everest in a Wheel Chair. This paraplegic Australian has mostly anticipated to use his hands to climbup as a wheelbarrow. Eight days of trek!

Written by Annabel Symington (AFP)

An Australian in a wheel chair has the ambition to be the first paraplegic to rally the base camp of Mont Everest with help during a trek. Scott Dolan, 28 years of age, will start on March 16^th 2018 his trip to conquer the south face of the Mont Everest, on the Nepal side, at 5364 m of altitude, usually only reachable by foot or by helicopter. The man wants to prove that the top of the mountain can also be reached in a wheel chair.

As simple as a kids’ game ?

To get there, he will use a specially fitted wheel chair with trek wheels to take the small trek where he can go with his wheel chair. But I think that most of the day he will use his hands, with a friend who will carry his legs, like in the kid’s game : wheel barrow he says. “ I will come out of my wheel chair and my friend Matt will hold me taking me by the ankles, and I will walk on my hands.” For the last eight months, M. Doolan has been exercising for this trek, with cardio-vascular and muscular exercises. He has also spent some time on the Blue Mountains in Australia, wearing a mask limiting intake of oxygen to simulate the high altitude conditions that will be present in the mountains of the Himalaya.