Defibrillator installed by campaigner saves life of climber on mountain

DEVICE HAD BEEN IN PLACE FOR ONLY THREE WEEKS

- By IMOGEN HOWSE

A CAMPAIGNER who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator has revealed the device saved a woman's life - just three weeks later.

David Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR, an organisation which aims to teach people life-saving CPR and install more defibrillators across England, after he lost four close friends all under the age of 45 to cardiac arrest.

Mr Sullivan, 62, has spent the last several years travelling around the world trying to improve cardiac survival rates - and earlier this year ventured to the Himalayas, where he installed what he says is the world's highest defibrillator.

The dad of four, from Oxted, first climbed to an altitude of 22,000 feet to test the defibrillator - and then descended to one of the villages near Everest Base Camp, at just over 16,500 feet, to install the device for use.