OB Aaron Anderson, 22 and dad Paul Anderson, 56, from West Kirby, made it to the summit on Monday (May 27 2024) via the notorious north-east ridge in Tibet.

The pair took on the challenge to raise funds for Dementia UK in honour of Paul's mother and Aaron's grandmother, who has vascular dementia, and managed to raise an incredible £85k for the charity.

Paul said the Chinese Tibetan Mountain Association "seemed to think" they were the first father and son to accomplish the hard to access route from Tibet "which was really cool".

He said: "It was not something we'd thought about."

Aaron said: "We had no idea."

The pair said there were plenty of challenges due to the extreme altitude, which means climbers have to prepare the body to summit the mountain in stages from each camp.

Paul said: "You shock the body into producing more red blood cells to account for the lack of oxygen."

Aaron said there was "a lot of time sat in the tent with not much to do".

However, Paul said it was "like a dream" when they got to the top.

"It was surreal," he added. 

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