Ken Hutt's death-defying bid to paraglide from Mount Everest summit to be captured on film to help end polio
2 years, 11 months ago

Ken Hutt's death-defying bid to paraglide from Mount Everest summit to be captured on film to help end polio

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Imagine you only had one shot. "It's the ultimate extreme sports film and I only have one go at it," Carter said. "My preparations have been really extreme, because it's so compressed … so every day I've been on Mount Coot-Tha, going up and down, trying to get as many laps in as possible." "I'm not up there to kill myself, that's going to do no-one any good whatsoever," Hutt told Carter in an interview. "It's not just look at this silly guy that would climb Mount Everest and fly a paraglider off Mount Everest, it's to take that attention and convert that attention helping get rid of polio."

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Ken Hutt set out to paraglide from the top of Mount Everest — he didn't make it, but his message to end polio did
2 years, 9 months ago

Ken Hutt set out to paraglide from the top of Mount Everest — he didn't make it, but his message to end polio did

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A Queensland man's quest to become the oldest person to paraglide from the top of Mount Everest has ended in near tragedy. Accompanied by QUT filmmaker Joe Carter, Ken Hutt, 62, set off in April and spent weeks at Base Camp preparing to make the long journey to the pinnacle. However, the glide was not to be — Mr Hutt …

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