Spencer Matthews has said he was concerned that his brother’s body had become a ‘tourist attraction’ on Everest, which lead him to try and recover it.
has said he was concerned that his brother’s body had become a ‘tourist attraction’ on Everest, which lead him to try and recover it.star was just 10 when his brother Michael, 22, went missing on the peak in 1999.
An experienced mountaineer, Michael had previously conquered Kilimanjaro, the Pyrenees and the Swiss Alps, but became the 162nd person to die on Everest.‘I was aching to find out more about his death. I was ten at the time. I remember thinking it was really unfair,’ Spencer said on The Travel Diaries podcast.‘I always believed that I’d see him again and never took it on the chin that he was dead. I thought it was impossible. It never crushed me in the way it affected my parents and my brother.
‘I’ve always been uncomfortable with the idea of him being up there and possibly in plain sight…like some kind of tourist attraction and on his own and away from us,’ he added.‘We had a memorial service but were of course never able to see his body.’Spencer said that he ‘never really processed’ his brother’s death fully.‘I never really took it on the chin that he had died and I remember thinking that it was impossible at the time.
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