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.
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High mountain ranges such as the Himalaya and Andes offer some of the most spectacular hiking opportunities on the planet. That being said, walking at high altitude brings with it certain risks, the most common of which is altitude sickness, known as acute mountain...