Stuart Morris

I've made a couple of attempts on Mount Aspiring, and the particular point I think where he had his accident is, yeah, it's brutal in there if the weather goes.

Mount Chemlang was the name of it. It's a 7,300-meter peak in Nepal.

Yeah, I'm not sure how Eric felt about that, because I could imagine he was a traditionalist in that he probably wanted to carry his own stuff.

You're literally flying through mountains and you just don't realize that in the distance there's a little rectangle and that's the landing strip.

It's amazing because you can see the pilots making this physical effort to control the plane. They have to obviously use as much of the runway as they can because they need it. That's a very exciting start to the trip.

People in the group weren't necessarily familiar with crampons and axes and harnesses. So a bit of a training session for everyone on just moving on a glacier.

All this stuff wasn't always going to be necessary, but it was just about being safe. It's not like you're just going to be handed a set of crampons and an ice axe and we'll see you at the top sort of scenario. It's just like, so you know what it feels like.

To cross the mirror, we didn't even need it. It was a well-worn path, even though it was on ice, and we just sort of plodded along and safely got up and over.

I think he was missing people back at home, but he was also really overwhelmed by the environment and the experience as well.

One of the very popular trekking peaks in Nepal is Mira Peak.

They got up in the morning to do that and started moving up the snow slope towards Merra Peak. And at some point it turned around either through a combination of weather and or time.

My father-in-law, he started to get sick on the way down.

But then there was the difficulties of the weather, getting a helicopter up.

Why does this happen for a tourist, whereas a local doesn't get the same opportunity of care?