Saturday, 12. April 2003
Topic: LONGEST - on April 12, 2003 at 10:06:04 AM CEST
Explorer trudged North Pole with broken ankle
An explorer who became the first person to walk unaided and alone to the North Pole has revealed he trudged the last 60 miles over five days with a broken ankle. David Hempleman-Adams broke his left ankle when he tumbled off an icefall 16 days into his record-breaking expedition.
"I crawled into my tent, it was late at night and it was blowing a hooly (gale)," he told a news conference on his first day back in Britain on Friday.
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