Sir Chris Bonington, who once shimmied up rock faces like a Himalayan ibex and hauled himself to the top of the world’s highest and most forbidding mountains, is walking rather stiffly when he answers the door of his London home. Our most distinguished mountaineer is now 87 and has recently had a second hip replacement. “My climbing days are over,” he says as he ushers me in. “I’ll definitely go on climbing walls again,” he says casually. SponsoredYou wouldn’t bet against him scaling a real rock face.

Source: The Times December 11, 2021 11:12 UTC