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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maroosha Muzaffar

An Australian climber is taking two months to scale Mount Everest. It could still be a speed record

Oliver Foran has had to fight adversity at every step of his Everest challenge - (Oliver Foran)

Oliver Foran was 16 when his mother died of brain cancer. Too young to process the grief, he says he internalised everything and for eight years did not shed a tear.

“I didn’t really deal with it... I didn’t cry… I didn’t show any emotion about it,” he tells The Independent. On the outside, everything was fine. He launched a business in real estate, and his life had structure and direction. “But I felt empty inside,” he recalls. Finally, he decided to do something about it.

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