How can Diana top this ?!?

[johnfoyle]

The gossip column of the new issue of Dublin rock mag. Hot Press has this -

As The Radiators gear up for their Bloomsday reunion gig in Dublin , we hear that bassist Cait O'Riordan is acclimatising by - wait for it - pitching in at Base Camp , Everest , as a volunteer helping Clare O'Leary in her attempt to become the first Irish woman to scale the world's highest mountain....

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Cait was Elvis Costello's last wife - short of going on a trip to a space station Diana just could not top this!!


Incidentally the mag.'s deadline missed this news -

http://www.everestnews2004.com/everest2 ... hdis25.htm

Thirty three year old, Dr Clare O'Leary from Bandon, Co Cork was this morning, Tuesday 18th May, the first ever Irish woman to reach the 29,035 ft summit of Mount Everest.

The Wyeth Irish Everest Expedition 2004 team led by veteran Cork
mountaineer, Pat Falvey, who is now the first Irish person to summit Everest from both the Nepal and Tibetan approaches, reached the summit at 6.45 am local time (1.45 am Irish time) after a 9 hour push from the team's high camp at 26,000 ft. Today's success came at the end of two months on the mountain in preparation for the final climb by a team that includes Nepali and Irish climbers.