A FORMER soldier has been hailed a hero after abandoning his own once-in-a-lifetime Everest expedition to bravely try and save the lives of two climbers just a few hundred metres from the top of the world’s highest mountain.
Les Binns saved Indian Sunita Hazra’s life on Everest and has been thanked by her overjoyed family.
But despite Les’s best efforts he was unable to save fellow climber Subhash Paul who died after succumbing to the treacherous conditions at oxygen-starved high altitude.
Les, of Manvers, had spent two months and more than £30,000 getting to within 400m of Everest’s summit - an ambition he had held for more than 15 years.
But when he effectively ‘caught’ stranger Sunita tumbling down the mountain towards him, out of oxygen and in a deadly state of exhaustion, his adventure immediately turned to a lifesaving mission.
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