Pádraig O’Hora on climbing Everest: ‘I’m over the moon to have achieved what I set out to do’
Former Mayo footballer was part of three-man Irish team to reach the summit on Wednesday morning
Everest expedition
Pádraig O’Hora and Irish team reach the summit of Everest
Three-man team summits the world’s highest mountain in Nepal early on Wednesday morning after 47-day expedition
Pádraig O’Hora makes it to within 400m of the top of Everest before weather forces his team to turn around
All going well, the former Mayo footballer, along with teammates Adam Sweeney and Éanna McGowan, will make another summit push tonight
Pádraig O’Hora’s Everest Diary: ‘He arrived back in, clutching his throat, unable to breathe’
Weather delays are making it a frustrating season, with the window for pushing on to the summit closing by the day
Pádraig O’Hora’s Everest Diary: ‘Don’t look down? Here, you have no choice’
After weeks of build-up, the expedition has moved onto Everest and pushed past Base Camp. Excitement is rising, danger is too
Pádraig O’Hora’s Everest Diary: ‘We wonder whether the icefall will ever become passable’
An icefall and an ankle injury present new challenges to mind and body
‘At Everest Base Camp, we learned the route is the most dangerous it’s been in over 20 years’
Back at Everest Base Camp, an impassable icefall brings the first major disruption to the summit plan
Pádraig O’Hora’s Everest Diary: ‘Headaches, vomiting continuously, and blood along with it’
Despite all the training, altitude sickness has struck and it’s time for a retreat to recover. Better now than later
Pádraig O’Hora: ‘We’re off on the adventure of a lifetime while the world is on fire’
The former Mayo footballer is having both positive and negative thoughts about his planned assault on Everest’s summit
Pádraig O’Hora: ‘My answer isn’t in the pub. My answer is in the sea or it’s on the mountain’
The ex-Mayo footballer is always searching for peace of mind – over the next two months, he will try to find it on the world’s highest mountain
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