Mt Everest climber blindsided

A blind Australian adventurer's bid to conquer Mt Everest ended when he fell down a crevasse his Sherpa guide forgot to tell him about.


Gerrard Gosens is back home in Brisbane nursing cuts, bruises and a dislocated shoulder after falling just over 3m into the ice crevasse, more than 7000m up the mountain last month.

"One minute I'm sucking in the oxygen-deprived air and the next minute I'm falling into it," he said yesterday.