London: Quadruple amputee Jamie Andrew has climbed the 4,478 metre (14,692 ft) high Matterhorn, one of the highest peaks in the Alps. The Scotsman lost his hands and feet to frostbite 15 years ago when he and his friend Jamie Fisher got stranded in a thick and violent snow blizzard at the top of a French Alps mountain.
They had sat on an icy ledge with no food or water for five whole days, by the time a rescue helicopter arrived his hiking companion had frozen to death. Jamie contracted hypothermia and severe frostbite and, in 1999, surgeons had no choice but to remove his limbs.
In order to leave hospital, he relearnt every day basic tasks such as washing, dressing and feeding himself. Incredibly, within a year of the operation he managed to begin snowboarding with the help of physiotherapy and prosthetic limbs. He then turned his hand to marathons, sailing, swimming, triathlons and now mountaineering.