Devaney touching the sky

Longford man Paul Devaney caught the mountaineering bug by accident on a holiday trek to see Mount Everest in 2005. Nine years later he is back in its shadows but this time preparing to climb the highest peak on the planet as part of the seventh and final leg of an amazing journey around the world’s most challenging mountains.

We’re going to be up at 27,000 feet where you can’t survive without supplementary oxygen and oxygen tanks. This is the biggie. You either do it or you don’t.

PaulDevaney hiking in Kerry. Devaney grew up in Longford where he says he certainly ‘didn’t grow up climbing’. In fact the climbing bug struck Devaney almost by accident while he was working in Hong Kong.