I HAD to climb a lot of mountains during my playing career, now I’m off to scale a real summit! In the next few weeks I’m going to look to break two Guinness World Records by playing rugby on…. Mount Everest. It’s going to be an amazing trip and a real physical and mental challenge.
The trip is part of the work I do with the Wooden Spoon charity and we are going to play a game of seven-a-side rugby on a full pitch as well as a game of touch at advanced base camp. It’s certainly going to test out the fitness as the altitude will be about 6,500 metres! The initi...