Kenton Cool, left, and Keith Partridge with the medal at Base Camp

Record-breaking Everest summiteer Kenton Cool has arrived at Base Camp on his quest to post a 10th ascent of the world’s highest mountain.

Cool, who has reached Everest’s summit nine times, more than any other Briton, arrived with cameraman Keith Partridge this week.

Their trip out from Kathmandu to Lukla had been dogged with problems when most of the party’s luggage, including the film-maker’s tripod went astray.

But the expedition, which will see the Gloucestershire-based mountaineer attempt to take an Olympic medal to the summit, is back on track.

Kenton Cool made his Olympic Games Pledge in the year of the London 2012 Games to fulfil the promise made by a member of the failed 1922 expedition to take the medal to the summit.

The gold medal was presented to Arthur Wakefield, one of the members of the 1922 party, to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, at the 1924 inaugural Winter Olympics, in honour of the team’s efforts.

Cool said on reaching Base Camp: “I’m so excited to be here at last. My special cargo is safe sound. I can’t thank the Wakefield family enough for allowing me to be here with their original expedition medal.”