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More story first. for those of you who have wanted to climb mount everest, good news, you do not have to be super fit to trek to base camp and age does not have to be a barrier either. people in their 70s have made the hike but nevertheless it is not something to be undertaken lightly. we can talk to somebody who has just done it. we have kenton cool, a mountaineer in nepal, and jane slade, a journalist and trekking enthusiast in london. jane, first of all, as 60th birthdays go, why did you decide to do it and what was it like? i wanted to do something _ do it and what was it like? i wanted to...

Jane Slade spent three weeks trekking through the Himalayas to celebrate her 60th birthday. Along the way, she visited clifftop monasteries and hung out with a legendary Sherpa.