Alexander Stuart

The Khumbu Icefall - beautiful until it comes crashing down on you. My friend David Tait , who's climbing Everest for his fifth time to raise money for Britain's leading children's charity, the NSPCC , and to raise awareness of child sexual abuse (of which David himself was a victim at the age of ten), survived an AVALANCHE on Sunday April 28 2013, when a huge chunk of ice broke off and triggered every ice climber's worst nightmare: a vast roaring, raging torrent of snow and ice. Here is David's own account of what happened - from his regular David Tait Expeditions 2013 Dispatches: Dispatch 15, The Khumbu Icefall 28TH April 2013 – 5am.      “F*****g run!” screamed Woody at from the head of our 5 man column. Something within me instinctively knew why, despite not having seen the danger. Luckily my iPod was only entertaining only one ear otherwise I doubt I would have heard the warning. I glanced up high and to my left. There was my worst ni