Thomas Fitzgibbon running in Himalayas for victims of Nepal earthquake

A Corkman who has never run a high-altitude marathon in his life will attempt one of the world’s most gruelling ones in the Himalayas next month in an effort to raise money for the victims of last April’s Nepal earthquake.

When it comes to altitude training, the Ballyhoura Hills and The Galtee Mountains don’t really match up.

But they’ll have to do for Thomas Fitzgibbon, who will be the only Irishman running in the Tenzing Hillary Everest marathon, named after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first men to scale the world’s tallest mountain in 1953.