Our Everest Challenge

Ben Fogle and Victoria Pendleton are guided by professional mountaineer Kenton Cool a veteran of twelve Everest summits As they head up the mountain into the notorious death zone physical exhaustion extreme conditions and misfortune will test the pair to their limits 65 years after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit Since that day in 1953 more than 4000 people have successfully climbed Everest but nearly 300 climbers have died on her icy slopes As Ben and Victoria begin their expedition and face their fears they know Everest will be lifechanging