Ken Hutt, a farmer from Berry NSW, is a retired Police Rescue Squad member and a member of the Sports Aviation Federation of Australia. In 2014 Ken glided from the summit of the world's sixth highest mountain, Choy Oyu, in Tibet. In 2022, aged 63, Ken then set off to do something that's never been done before - to climb 8,846 metres and then fly a solo paraglider from the top of Mt Everest, all in the name of raising funds and awareness for Rotary's End Polio Now campaign. However, the glide was not to be - Ken developed a life-threatening chest infection at camp two, about 6,400 metres up the world's highest mountain. Without the ability to breathe properly in an environment where every gram of oxygen inhaled can mean the difference between surviving and death, he had no choice but to descend. Once you get beyond camp two you cannot get medical aid or be rescued. One in seven people don't survive their attempts at Everest and three people died while the group was on the mountain. Ken returned to the Everest region in 2023 to spend two days hiking to an altitude of 5,200 metres to fly from the Lobuche Peak in Nepal. So far, Ken has raised $250,000 for Rotary's End Polio Now campaign.