Fall ends young Wexford woman’s Everest attempt

BRIDGET Rossiter O’Flynn’s dreams of becoming the first Irish woman to reach the summit of Everest were shattered over the bank holiday weekend.

A serious fall in temperature to 30 degrees below zero left the gutsy marketing manager with two broken fingers and superficial injuries to one of her legs.

However, had she not fallen into a snow-covered crevasse on Saturday on her return to advance base camp, 22,000 feet up Everest, she might not even have lived to contemplate a retreat.