A group of climbers have scaled Africa’s highest mountain – wearing just their shorts.<\/p>\n
Dutch daredevil Wim Hof, known as the ‘iceman’, led a group of 26 people to the summit of the world’s highest free standing mountain – Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.<\/p>\n
In just 48 hours the group climbed all 5,895m (19, 340ft) without succumbing to hypothermia or altitude sickness – an achievement considered impossible by experts. Clearly, they were in peak condition.<\/p>\n
Eleven of the team climbed the mountain dressed just in shorts and without tops – to arrive unhurt at the mountain’s peak, where the temperature is a brutal -20C.<\/p>\n
Before the project started, the Dutch Mountaineering and Climbing Federation and expedition medics considered this impossible.<\/p>\n
The success rate of reaching Uhuru Peak in a regular mountaineering expedition is 41 per cent.<\/p>\n
At the summit the amount of oxygen is less than 50 per cent of the amount of oxygen at sea level – usually for a climber going up, it takes five to seven days to acclimatise.<\/p>\n
Whim believes a combination of training focus, breathing and training at low temperatures made it possible for the participants to gain control over altitude sickness.<\/p>\n
The participants of this expedition, aged between 29 and 65 years, were without any real mountaineering experience and some suffered conditions such as rheumatism, asthma and chrones disease.<\/p>\n
Wim Hof, who sat in an ice bath for one hour 13 minutes to break the world record, said: \u2018Until now the world thought that only I was capable to conquer extreme cold and altitude.<\/p>\n
\u2018These heroes have shown that everybody is able to do what I am doing.<\/p>\n
\u2018My method offers people the possibility to influence their mind and body, and in particular their nervous system.<\/p>\n
Mr Hof claims that he can alter his body’s heat using just the power of his mind.<\/p>\n
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