"We had one guide, he was a lovely guy. He looked like an ewok from Return of the Jedi," she says. "The porters are just local guys who work on the mountain and their job is to carry your stuff up the mountain." It took us seven days, no, it took us seven hours, the first part of the climb,. And that's in the boiling hot heat with the sun bearing down, pouring sweat. The ground underneath our feet, a lot of it, was just sort of dust or sand. You climb up and you lose your footing - easy to slip".