INTREPID explorer David Hempleman-Adams has been honoured for his bravery. The Royal Humane Society gave the Box-based adventurer a bronze award after he saved fellow explorer Brian Price's life.
Mr Price, 64, had pains in his chest, head, arms and legs and developed a lesion on his pulmonary artery while supporting Hempleman-Adams' solo flight over Mount Everest last September. He had climbed 17,000 feet into the Himalyas to launch weather balloons that checked flight conditions.
Mr Hempleman-Adams and two reporters covering the expedition rushed Mr Price to the Nepalese border after Chinese authorities refused to allow a medical helicopter to land. After a 20-hour journey they made the border with minutes to spare before it closed for the night. Mr Price was flown to hospital in Kathmandu.
Mr Price had fallen ill as he could not take anti-altitude sickness drugs because of medication he was taking for Parkinson's disease and a heart bypass.
Speaking after he received his award, Mr Hempleman-Adams said: "It is a great honour."
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