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Pádraig O’Hora on attempting Everest: ‘More people die sitting on the couch than climbing mountains’

By Malachy ClerkinThe Irish Times

The ex-Mayo footballer is always searching for peace of mind – over the next two months, he will try to find it on the world’s highest mountain

There were so many nights when Pádraig OHora walked alone up and down the mountain. Himself and his brain and sometimes, when it was really important, the decadent luxury of nothing. No outside world…