Richard Parks, talking to Matt Lloyd of The Independent, speaks of his epic 737 challenge.
"It was in rugby that Richard Parks made his name but after almost losing part of his foot to severe frostbite, surviving a brush with death in a crevasse and dodging collapsing ice shelves, avalanches and even malaria, it will be as Britain's fastest adventurer that history will now remember him.
On the pitch, the former Wales international was a robust and athletic loose forward unfortunate to play at the same time as Martyn Williams, otherwise more representative honours would surely have come.
However, no one can put him in the shade on the world's highest peaks and polar caps, where this remarkable record-breaker stands peerless after achieving mountaineering's "Grand Slam" in record time"
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