Motivational speaker Kenton Cool, 38, from Quenington, holds the British record for the number of ascents of the world's highest mountain, after scaling the peak nine times.

This year British mountaineer Kenton Cool is preparing to honour an Olympic pledge by climbing Mount Everest for the tenth time, taking with him a gold medal awarded to a member of the British Everest Expedition in 1922.

The climbers never reached the top because there was a huge avalanche in which seven people lost their lives.

They were awarded the medal for mountaineering by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founding father of the modern Olympic Games.

Kenton Cool said he will carry the medal to the summit, with a medic from the team called Arthur Wakefield, this should make for an ''emotional journey''.