Former Royal Marine Complete Longest Trek To Everest Ever
A former Royal Marine has reached the summit of Mount Everest after swimming, cycling and running more than 8,000 miles.
31-year-old Mitch Hutchcraft started by swimming the English Channel on September 15 and the 240-day challenge ended when he topped the world’s highest mountain on Sunday.
“I’m not a superhuman“
BFBS Forces News spoke to former @RoyalMarines Mitch Hutchcraft, who swam, cycled, ran and trekked from England to Nepal before scaling Mount Everest
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His team said it was the world’s longest ever ascent of Everest from sea to summit. How did he do it? He started off swimming the 21 mile width of the English Channel, and then cycled about 7,456 miles from Europe to Digha in India.
then he ran 559 miles to Kathmandu in Nepal, before starting his 223-mile trek to Everest basecamp. Was it hard? Yep hardest thing EVER. But he said it was “more magical than I could have ever dreamed”.