Former New Zealand test cricketer Adam Parore has climbed mount everest.
Former New Xealand test cricketer Adam Parore has climbed mount everest.
The 40-Years old Parore,who played as a wicket keeper-batsman,reached the summit of the world's tallest mountain on Saturday,succeding at his second attempt after previously being forced back by bad weather.Parore was accompained to the summit by three guides,10 sherpas and seven other climbers on a commercial climb.He hoped to raise 100,000new Zealand dollars($79,000)for a children's charity.Parore told New Zeald media he ran out of oxygen and spent only 20 to 30 minutes on the summit."I spent about 20 minutes to half an hour up there",Parore said,after conquering the world's highest mountain."I took few photos but i wanted to come back.It is very exposed and a long way dow"."I had great plans on whati should do and how i might feel but in the end it was a bit of an anti-climax.I just wanted to get down and live",he said.Parore 40,fulfilled a life long dream by reaching the peak,8848m above sea level.Now back at everest base camp,he has lost his voice,has a racking coughand is having difficuklty breathing."Im a bit buggered and sick and tiredof not being able to breathe",he said.""Im trashed physically,totally destroyed.He paid tribute to hi sherpa,who he said kept him alive on Everest,and an old friend who climbed behind him all the way"pokingme in the ass with his ice pick axe to keep me going".He has been in Nepal since march 27 acclimatasing and preparing for the summit."Once you are over the south summitit just plays out infront of you.it's very surreal".He ran out of oxygen and was showing signs of hypoxia,which is potentially fatal.Asked what he learned about himself preparing for the climbing Mount Everest,Parore said in the mountains life becomes very simple.
Parore,who hoped to raise $100,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation from his climb,is sunday on his way back to New Zealand and will be back in Auckland either monday or tuesday"It's going to be quite a culturs shock".
