SAS: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton admits cheating on Everest trek

SAS: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton admits he CHEATED on Everest challenge by flying to a luxury hotel and getting ‘smashed’ – leaving his film crew in tents at 17,000ft

• Ant Middleton, 39, admitted he left team at Everest Base Camp to go to a hotel
• In his book, the TV star told he went to the pub and drank until 2 am every night
• He paid £1,500 for a helicopter to be flown back to join his crew to complete trek

Former soldier Ant Middleton has admitted he cheated on his TV Everest challenge after he left his crew and was flown out to a luxury hotel and spa during the trek.  

The SAS: Who Dares Wins star, 39, spent four weeks climbing the highest mountain in the world with a team for Channel 4’s Extreme Everest.

But the TV star revealed in his new book The Fear Bubble, that he left his team huddled in tents at Everest Base Camp, while he paid £1,500 for a private helicopter to take him to a resort.

Ant was flown to The Yeti Mountain Home – which boasts king-size beds, electric blankets, a restaurant – and told how he spent every evening getting ‘smashed’ until 2am.

Former soldier Ant Middleton, 39, (pictured) has admitted he cheated on his TV Everest challenge after he left his crew and was flown out to a luxury hotel and spa during the trek

The TV star was flown to The Yeti Mountain Home (pictured) – which had king-size beds, electric blankets, a restaurant – where he spent every evening getting ‘smashed’ until 2am

He wrote: ‘For the first time in a month there were no cameras pointing at me, no schedule bearing down on me and no alpha-male politics to negotiate. Not only that, I’d booked myself into the best hotel in town.’

The instructor went on to confess that he discovered a bar named The Irish Pub, which served up Guinness and cocktails with names such as Sex On The Mountain, Yak Attack, Ice Fall and Dancing Yeti.

‘Over the next few days I ended up basically living there,’ he continued. ‘I’d stumble out smashed at 2am every night.’

‘Then I’d wake up feeling dreadful, with the symptoms of my hangover concentrated dozens of times over by the effects of high altitude.’

With a hangover from days of drinking, Ant was flown back to join his team and complete the last leg of the journey for the TV show – where he saw a Shelpa leader die on the perilous climb to the top.

The instructor admitted he discovered a bar named The Irish Pub (pictured), which served up cocktails with names such as Sex On The Mountain, Yak Attack, Ice Fall and Dancing Yeti

The TV star revealed in his new book The Fear Bubble that he left his team huddled in tents at Everest Base Camp while he paid £1,500 for a private helicopter to take him to a resort

‘I felt like rotting meat. I’d done the damage, now I had to live with the consequences,’ he wrote. 

Ant has previously revealed he was close to death on the trek after he became trapped in a snow storm for three hours on the way down the mountain. 

But there was no mention of Ant’s luxury break on the show, which attracted 1.2 million viewers when it aired in November 2018. 

Ant’s new book, The Fear Bubble, explores ways of breaking down fear until it can be used as a tool, rather than an obstacle. 

He is now a father to his five children – Oakley, 17, Shyla, 11, Gabriel, ten, Priseis, three and Bligh, two – and a committed husband to wife of 14 years Emilie, 39.

The SAS: Who Dares Wins star spent four weeks climbing the highest mountain in the world with a team for Channel 4’s Extreme Everest

There was no mention of Ant’s luxury break on the show, which attracted 1.2 million viewers when it aired in November 2018

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