Top Mountaineer In Injury Horror
Door frame: one; Climber: nil
Posted: 6 June 2001
by Jon
Britain's so-called 'unluckiest living mountaineer' Alan Hinkes
has suffered yet another irksome injury.
This time a half-dressed Alan, in the words of his local paper:
'broke his little toe prancing around his home in Northallerton,
North Yorkshire. The man himself comments: 'It's badly swollen and
tender, and with my damaged finger [snapped tendon from climbing
wall] it will present a real problem.'
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Alan Hinkes brandishing a pack of
Wayfayrer Spotted Dick and Custard -
he is a technical consultant for the pre-packed moist meals
brand and
doubtless now prefers them to chapatis...
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It didn't however stop gritty Berghaus-sponsored Hinkes from
setting off to the Alps. 'This happening is unfortunate, but it's
only pain and it won't stop my climb. I have a high pain
threshold.'
Joking aside, poor old Alan has had a bit of a rough time of
things recently what with the chapati incident, the unfortunate
bamboo spearing and his crevasse fall on Kangchenjunga, but with just
three of the 14 8,000-metre peaks remaining to be ticked, he's still
on course to be the first Brit to climb them all.
Hinkes's next summit attempts will be in the 2001 post-monsoon
season, following his decision not to head out to the Himalaya this
Spring.
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