I'm Off to Climb Everest - but We're Planning to Have a Good Time ; He has Bungee Jumped and Skydived, and Today Malcolm Walker Is Heading to the Himalayas - While Also Planning to Conquer Iceland (the Stores, That Is, Not the Country) the Interview

Mail on Sunday › March 27, 2011

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Climbing Everest at the age of 65 may seem foolhardy. But the millionaire executive chairman of Iceland, Malcolm Walker, is a man who can afford not to slum it. Going with him and his team on the two-month expedition will be ten crates of wine, two tons of food and an executive chef.

Speaking to Financial Mail at his headquarters in Deeside ahead of his departure today, he says: 'Yes, it's a big challenge. But we're also planning to have a good time.'

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I'm Off to Climb Everest - but We're Planning to Have a Good Time ; He has Bungee Jumped and Skydived, and Today Malcolm Walker Is Heading to the Himalayas - While Also Planning to Conquer Iceland (the Stores, That Is, Not the Country) the Interview

Walker admits that his extremesports achievements to date have been less grand. 'I've sailed across the Atlantic, but I wasn't the one doing the sailing. I've bungee jumped and I've done a bit of skydiving. Anything for a...

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