Ireland’s greatest living explorer Corkman Pat Falvey at the Market Cross, Killarney at the weekend when announced that he has retired from extreme adventuring following a lifetime of conquering the world’s highest mountains and most remote regions. Falvey was the first Mountaineer in the world to conquer the highest mountains on seven continents, not once but twice, including Mount Everest North and South.
Everest-Pat on summit 1995 It was a proud moment for me at 9.10am on 27 May 1995, when I stood on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time with my friends, James Allen and Mike Smith. I now had the third – and highest – of the Seven Summits in the bag. 1st Irish...