3 diabetics on everest within a week!
Reports are now in that throughout May 2006 THREE type 1 diabetics have been on or ascending Mt Everest. It has now been confirmed that all three of these type 1 diabetics, Josu Feijoo, Geri Winkler and Will Cross, managed to scale the peak.
The first ever type 1 diabetic was Josu Feijoo on the 18th May
http://www.nec.es/newsite/index.html
Click on the Everest Expedition 2006. Its all in Spanish, but the words tell the story no matter what language you read.
Josu Feijoo: Primer Diabetico Del Mundo En Alcanzar La Cima Del Everest
18 de Mayo, 12.30pm telephone via satellite. Objective completed.
from someone that knows Josu... Josu is a basque (from north of Spain) diabetic. I met him once in an
Everest expedition in 1993, and two or three times more. It was a long
time since I didn't know anything about him now.. At that time he was
not a good example of good diabetes control, but a good example of
perserverance. The last time I saw him he had some retinopathy and small
complications. I saw the news about him in the internet. I'm glad he's
fit and has done it, as well as the other two.
On May 20, Geri Winkler's team all assembled on the top of the world:
http://www.alpineascents.com/everest-cybercast.asp
And only three days later, Will Cross also completed the challenge:
http://www.everestnews.com/everest2006/willcrosseverest05232006.htm
Pretty impressive stuff, we here at HypoActive congratulate them all.