A soldier who had to learn to walk again after he was almost killed in a Taliban ambush has climbed to Everest’s base camp – and skydived beside the iconic peak.
Former Lance Corporal Martyn Compton was named one of Britain’s most injured soldiers after suffering 75% burns to his body when his vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan.
He was told he might never walk or use his arms again, his future made even more bleak by gunshot wounds that had shattered his upper right leg.
