Grace Millane’s mother climbs to Everest base camp

“The weather was the worst they have had there for 12 years. It was all very emotional,” she said.

“It was freezing, I was wet though to the skin and the altitude was very hard to deal with. We were sleeping in rooms with no heating, there were landslides and paths were being washed away.

“But other than all that, I had a wonderful time and I had an amazing team behind me.”

It took the team eight days of climbing to reach the camp – which sits at an altitude of 17,598ft (5364m) – and four days to get back down.

Mrs Millane left a stone engraved with her daughter’s name at the top, alongside one with the name of her late husband David, who died from cancer in 2020.

She had previously left stones with their names on at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.