Fair City star Ryan Andrews has told how he had to charter a helicopter with former Big Brother star Marc O’Neill as he opens up about the “wildest day” trying to climb Mount Everest.
The pair are attempting to climb Mount Everest but have already been hit with a few obstacles at Kathmandu airport as their flight to the mountain got cancelled due to poor weather conditions.
Ryan, who is best known as Sean Cassidy in RTE hit soap, filled followers in on his Instagram stories explaining that the Hell Week stars had to charter a helicopter to take them where they needed to go as time was ticking and they only have a few days to do their climb.
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Ryan said: “We are under pressure now, we have to leave in the next two minutes because that’s our airtime slot, unless we miss it and we don’t get out, so it’s all part of the journey you don’t know what’s going to happen or what way it’s going to go, but we got there in the end.”
Updating followers in more detail, he added; “Day. 2 Easily the wildest day I’ve ever had in my life – 22hours & still going! We started with waking up at 4.00am, arriving in Kathmandu airport at 5.15am for our flight to Lukla Airport at 6.15am!”
Continuing, he shared that Lukla is known as one of the most dangerous airports in the world due to the often adverse weather conditions. Ryan added: “We needed to act fast as all flights over the next few days were booked, weather conditions were uncertain & we have an extremely tight schedule, so booking a helicopter became our new priority! With limited availability & now ‘Supply & Demand’ we finalised the deal & we headed off!”
Marc also shared a picture of the group and their helicopter to his Instagram stories, before he later shared a snap of himself walking in the dark telling followers the second helicopter had to make an emergency landing leaving the lads to hike in the “middle of the night”.
