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Defibrillator installed on Everest winds up saving climber’s life just weeks later
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Defibrillator installed on Everest winds up saving climber’s life just weeks later

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: June 6, 2025 7:40 pm
Jimmie Dempsey Published June 6, 2025
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A man who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator there says the device wound up saving a woman’s life just three weeks afterward.

David Sullivan, 62, made the journey to the Himalayas to place the lifesaving device on the mountain.

He believes it is the world’s highest-positioned defibrillator, sitting more than 16,000 feet above sea level, according to news agency SWNS.

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After losing four close friends — all under age 45 — to sudden cardiac arrest, Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR.

He began traveling the globe as an advocate to provide CPR training and install life-saving equipment in hard-to-reach places.

Earlier this year, Sullivan climbed to an altitude of 22,000 feet to test a defibrillator.

He then descended to a village near Everest Base Camp to install it for emergency use.

Sullivan returned home to Surrey on April 30, glad about what he’d accomplished — but with no idea how quickly his work would make an impact.

Just three weeks later, he got a phone call.

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“It was … Friday (May 23), at around 3:45 a.m.,” Sullivan told SWNS. “I have kids traveling the world, so I initially thought, ‘Oh my God, something’s happened.’”

He added, “But it was a Sherpa [a Tibetan mountain guide] who told me the defibrillator had been activated and saved a 30-year-old woman’s life,” Sullivan said. “It was the proudest moment of my life.”

“I hope it will help people realize how important it is to have access to defibrillators.”

The rescue confirmed why he’d taken on the physically and emotionally demanding journey.

While in the Himalayas, Sullivan didn’t just install the defibrillator – he also trained local Sherpas and villagers, many of whom had never received emergency medical instruction, according to SWNS.

“It is incredible that something so simple can save someone’s life – and I hope it will help people realize how important it is to have access to defibrillators,” Sullivan said.

David Sullivan in Nepal. Release date June 2 2025. A campaigner who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator has revealed the device saved a woman's life - just two weeks later. David Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR, an organisation which aims to teach people life-saving CPR and install more defibrillators across England, after he lost four close friends - all under the age of 45 - to cardiac arrest. Mr Sullivan, 62, has spent the last several years travelling around the world trying to improve cardiac survival rates - and earlier this year ventured to the Himalayas, where he installed what he says is the world's highest defibrillator. The dad-of-four, from Oxted, Surrey, first climbed to an altitude of 22,000 feet to test the defibrillator - and then descended to one of the villages near Everest Base Camp, at just over 16,500 feet, to install the device for use. Just two weeks after he returned from his expedition, Mr Sullivan learnt that the defibrillator had saved a climber's life when her heart stopped. He said: "It was the proudest moment of my life when I learnt what had happened.

“Being within three minutes of a defibrillator increases your chance of survival from 8% to more than 50%,” he added.

For Sullivan, there’s another personal angle. 

“It was the proudest moment of my life.”

He once had to use his CPR training just months after learning it himself. “I performed nine minutes of CPR for a young man and used a defibrillator just three months after I had been shown how to,” he told SWNS.

“While I was doing this, around 30 people just watched and didn’t help – because they didn’t know how.”

When the young man’s mother called him the next day to say her son was alive, Sullivan said it changed his life.

“I knew then that everyone should know how to save a life,” Sullivan said. 

Now, Sullivan wants to dedicate himself to reshaping others’ lives.

David Sullivan in Nepal. Release date June 2 2025. A campaigner who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator has revealed the device saved a woman's life - just two weeks later. David Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR, an organisation which aims to teach people life-saving CPR and install more defibrillators across England, after he lost four close friends - all under the age of 45 - to cardiac arrest. Mr Sullivan, 62, has spent the last several years travelling around the world trying to improve cardiac survival rates - and earlier this year ventured to the Himalayas, where he installed what he says is the world's highest defibrillator. The dad-of-four, from Oxted, Surrey, first climbed to an altitude of 22,000 feet to test the defibrillator - and then descended to one of the villages near Everest Base Camp, at just over 16,500 feet, to install the device for use. Just two weeks after he returned from his expedition, Mr Sullivan learnt that the defibrillator had saved a climber's life when her heart stopped. He said: "It was the proudest moment of my life when I learnt what had happened.

He is moving forward with a plan to train 1.2 million students in CPR through a school initiative.

“We want every school to have a new defibrillator and every person in the school – students, teachers, staff – to have all the training necessary to save someone’s life,” he told SWNS.

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“We won’t stop until we achieve that,” he also said. 

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