Left to Right- Ger McDonnell and Mick Murphy.
Left to Right- Ger McDonnell and Mick Murphy. By Irish America Staff
With a record number of people trying to reach the summit of Mount Everest 50 years after it was first scaled, two Irish climbers, Cork man Mick Murphy and Ger McDonnell from Limerick reached the summit on May 23, six days before the anniversary of Sir Edmund Hilary’s first ascent.
The two Irish climbers overcame hurricanes and blizzards to reach the summit. They became separated during their climb due to the adverse conditions, but were both with Sherpas and within radio contact with each other and base camp. Murphy was the first to reach the summit with McDonnell arriving an hour and a half later. The colorful Limerick man, sporting a hurley stick in his backpack, promptly puked a sliothar off the top of Everest. ♦
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Once I became a mother, I wouldn’t cross the icefall on Everest
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As the Sangria hit, the laughter of the lunchtime crowd at the Una Mas tapas bar reached a crescendo.
Filmmaker Jen Peedom looked anxiously at the iPhone recording in front of her, squished between platters of seafood and peppers. “Do you think you’ll be able to hear this?”
Jen Peedom’s childhood revolved around exercise for well-being.
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The petite filmmaker is big on logistics and challenges; she’s the sort of woman who will climb towards the top of Mt Everest with a film camera strapped across her back. The sort of woman whose concession to avoiding risk post-motherhood was “promising myself and my husband that I wouldn’t go through the icefall. It was my first time on the south side of Everest; there isn’t one of the north side. An icefall is like a jumbly