Meet the 81-year-old climbing Scottish mountains for his sick wife
"Doing this climbing has enabled me to refocus to some extent. I had to find something of this type, otherwise I'd have had mental health problems”
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"Doing this climbing has enabled me to refocus to some extent. I had to find something of this type, otherwise I'd have had mental health problems”
>> come under my jacket. >> are you okay? >> yeah. >> are you all right? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. . >> terrifying 40 seconds we just saw. one climber nick survived the avalanche on quest to become the first person with cystic fibrosis to climb mt. everest. he's joining us on the phone from kathmandu right now. nick take us back to that moment when you first knew something had gone horribly wrong. describe what happened? >> i was in my tent in base camp relaxing. it was one of our rest days. i felt the earth start to move underneath me. i'd been in earthquakes before so i knew what it was. a mas...