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Daily Mirror
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Milo Boyd

'I was once airlifted out of raging Arctic wildfire - now I'm climbing Everest'

A man who had to flee a ferocious natural disaster in Greenland is now taking on the Seven Summits and encouraging novices to get hiking.

Peter Watson has not been put off heading on adventures despite getting caught up in a ferocious wildfire in a place you'd more typically associate with freezing temperatures and snow.

Hailing from Hackney in East London, Peter was 100km into a solo hike through part of Artic Greenland when he spotted plumes of smoke rising up from the valley he was walking into.

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