By Tara Brady Rachel Burke, 28, was scheduled to spend three weeks in Nepal on the hiking holiday which had been branded as ¿high risk¿ A super fit Naval worker who died on an adventure trip through a notorious ‘Valley of Death’ in the Himalayas was so sick she was unable to tie her own shoelaces, an inquest heard today. Rachel Burke, 28, was scheduled to spend three weeks in Nepal on the hiking holiday which had been branded as ‘high risk’ by the UK based The Adventure Company. She flew into Kathmandu with two friends on 15 April, 2011 and began to travel on foot to base camp Mount Everest, Southwark Coroner’s Court was told.
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Rachel Burke was due to spend three weeks in Nepal on the hiking holiday
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The 28-year-old took part in a trek branded 'high risk' by The Adventure Company
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She flew into Kathmandu with two friends in April 2011 and began to travel on foot to base camp Mount Everest
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On the sixth day of the hike she was taken on foot partway back down the mountain and died the following day
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