A one-hour documentary follows ex Special Forces soldier Ant Middleton on his attempt to summit Everest for the first time.

For mountain climbers, the bad weather Middleton experiences will represent their worst fears. So why am I unhappy?

News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. It’s like they leave all their dignity at home, and just expect to be taken up there to tick it off. As the documentary points out, for every 17 climbers that has reached the summit, there has been one death, and the horror anecdotes about passing dead bodies, losing fingers and falling in ravines hadn’t escaped Middleton. Male nursery teachers like me are in a tiny minority - but we have so much to offer, Best Christmas gifts for him 2020: A guide to the top present ideas for men this year. By continuing to browse this site you give consent for cookies to be used. “It was much better weather when he made it,” Middleton says, quickly. The death toll is so high that Nepal banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains in March, in a bid to reduce accidents.

With a dozen mostly inexperienced climbers ahead, and 70mph winds building all around, they started to panic. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.

It’s that commercialised that anyone with money thinks they can.”. Fortunately, a Sherpa managed to supply him with one just in time, allowing him to safely reach Wardle at the nearest camp - but not before he’d seen another guide succumb to the conditions.

It fascinates me – they pay all this money and offload all their personal responsibility at the same time. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). “If you were writing a horror story, that sequence – the storm, the queue, the man hanging upside down, leaving the Sherpa, the oxygen running out – it’s unbelievable,” Middleton says. This was the case on the morning of May 14th 2018, when Middleton, Wardle and their Sherpa guide made it. It is directed by Ed Wardle, one of the UK's experts in filming in extreme environments. From Essex, Emilie heard the wind pick up through the satellite phone, making Middleton notice that a storm was closing in. It’s an absolute joke.”. On the way down, his oxygen supply ran out, at which point he “prepared to die.”.

A statement read: "This film tells the story of Ant’s climb, starting from his arrival in Kathmandu. Roddy Doyle interview: 'Once my children had grown up, I felt redundant'. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Nothing could have prepared me for the conditions I faced… but I respect the mountain and its extremes are part of what I wanted to experience for myself”. His thoughts turned to his children growing up without a dad, as he did (his father was found dead of a heart attack when Middleton was five).

Faced with a relatively simple 75m ice wall, an Italian climber (presumably with a tour group) flails and fails, holding Middleton’s group up for an hour and eventually having to be helped by a makeshift haulage system.

If I don’t go away and do something extreme every few weeks, that’s when I start to get into trouble. "It follows him on the trek up to Base Camp through the beautiful Khumbu Valley, to the strange world of Base Camp and sees him explore the extraordinary life of the Sherpas who bravely work in this unforgiving environment. Woman's going out snap leaves her VERY red-faced - so can you tell what's wrong? This major Channel 4 commission brought together Parable’s range of skills across the worlds of broadcast film-making, branded content, and immersive experiences. Boris Johnson and top medics to make 5pm Covid announcement today, Michelle Keegan returns to Corrie after 6 years away as cast film Xmas episodes, Helen Flanagan shows off growing baby bump in glam dress for lunch in Manchester, Mum, 18, charged with killing baby daughter 'left her home alone for six days'. It was meant to be the realisation of a boyhood dream: to travel to Nepal, climb the world’s tallest mountain, and stand on the apex of the planet. Instead, it would be largely psychological: staying calm, trusting his Sherpa guide and controlling his body. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. More episodes.

“It’s the only time I’ve ever left a man behind.” Lamu Babu Sherpa’s shoes and bag were recovered, but officials confirmed his death a few days later. Ant Middleton, 39, revealed in his new book The Fear Bubble that he left his team huddled in tents at Everest Base Camp while he paid for a private helicopter to take him to a resort. He said: “Since I was 16 years-old, I’ve dreamed of reaching the summit of Everest.

In the documentary, we see Middleton’s first encounter with such an amateur. Emilie gets it; she doesn’t want me hanging around the house moaning.”, He is stumped, though, on what to do next. Before he left, he wanted the trip to “give me its best”; to test him, and push him somewhere near to his very, very extreme limits. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.

“To climb Everest is the ultimate physical and mental test of strength, energy and endurance, so we were delighted to support Ant in helping him to fulfil his awe-inspiring ambition.”, 9 Leighton PlaceLondon NW5 2QLUnited Kingdom.

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For other inquiries, Contact Us. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. As chief instructor on SAS: Who Dares Wins and a general fitness nut, Middleton needed no additional physical training but worried about the additional altitude at 29,000ft – which he knew could be conquered be correctly acclimitising. “I need to keep pushing myself. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. What had was just how heaving with wealthy, ill-prepared climbers it would be. I had to do it.”. Majority-funded by Berocca, Parable worked to shape a value proposition for Berocca centred … Continued Is it time to ban Western travellers - and their egos - from Mount Everest?

©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Middleton had no choice. Most of the victims remain on the mountain, as it’s too difficult to bring their bodies down. Episodes. “I was expecting him to quit there and then, but he didn’t. The film also captures 360 degree footage which will be released alongside the main documentary. Middleton was stuck for almost three hours at the highest point on Earth, and it only got worse. “It wasn’t the views or even the achievement, it was the thrill of the unknown.

"As well as the wonder and beauty of the environment, Ant also encounters the danger posed by the mountain, as he, his film director and sherpas get trapped in a sudden unforeseen storm near the summit and fears for their own lives.".

“It went from sunny to ‘right, we need to get off this mountain’, and only then did I realise the magnitude of the situation,” he says. Parable is supported by the Channel 4 Growth Fund and The Economist.

I’ve done it round the world, but ever since I left the military [in 2012, after 15 years] Everest was my priority,” he says. It was a trip planned at relatively short notice, but an ambition Middleton harboured since he scaled Mount Snowdon as a 16-year-old Army recruit. “We’re chalk and cheese, but we became close up there and have kept in touch. Extreme Everest with Ant Middleton. He’s done Everest the hard way. *Extreme Everest with Ant Middleton, in association with Berocca, is on tonight at 9.30pm on Channel 4. He’s just a bit less extreme than me, a bit more sensible.”.

For Ant Middleton, the reality was closer to a nightmare. The star of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins summited in May but was forced to wait in the death zone behind a queue of people for several hours when 70mph winds caused a white out. He’s been a sniper under fire in enemy warzones… “It’s tough. The spring of 2018 was the busiest season in Everest’s history. TELLY adventurer Ant Middleton will attempt to scale Mount Everest in an exhilarating Channel 4 documentary. Middleton, who is by his own admission “uncomfortable when [he’s] comfortable” and “not a normal guy”, got what he asked for. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. Ant Middleton gets trapped in a life-threatening storm as he attempts to climb Everest. Got any ideas?”. On an expedition that should have been straightforward for a climber of his experience, a combination of freak weather, Everest’s now infamous queues and too many dangerously ill-prepared commercial climbers saw him come as close to death as he ever has – including during three tours of Afghanistan. From the north summit, the way off was back the way they came – and that meant a queue.



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