Daredevil adviser scales Everest

Mark Dickson, previously managing director of Blue Sky Asset Management and Incapital Europe, reached the summit of Everest on Saturday, fulfilling a life-long ambition. Prior to his Everest climb, Dickson and his fellow climbers trained in Nepal for three weeks, before arriving at the North Base Camp in Tibet on 16 April. His triumph follows a previous attempt to scale Everest in 2008 which ended unsuccessfully owing to a chest infection. Meanwhile, it has emerged at least three climbers died after returning from the summit of Mount Everest over the weekend. Two more climbers are ...