AN AUTOMATIC external defibrillator (AED) near Mt Everest Base Camp saved a young woman's life just weeks after it was installed.
David Sullivan, a 62-year-old from the UK, is the founder of Code Blue CPR, an organisation that trains defibrillator use and CPR skills at home and around the world.
He was driven to launch Code Blue CPR after losing four close friends, all under the age of 45, to cardiac arrest.
Earlier this year, he travelled to the Himalayas where he installed what he said is the world's highest defibrillator.
While many climbers die on Everest, death from cardiac arrest is not particularly common - but it happens.
Sullivan first climbed to around 6,700 metres to test the device, then installed it in village near Base Camp at around 5,300 metres.
He also gave multiple CPR and defibrillator classes to the locals who had never had access to training before.
Three weeks later, back in the UK, he was told it had been used to save a 30-year-old French woman's life.
"I hope it will help people realise how important it is to have access to defibrillators," he told Southwest News Service.
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