His heart stopped on the Bob Graham Round. Four years later he finished it.

A fell runner whose heart stopped on the Bob Graham Round four years ago has completed the 66-mile route, watched in by the mountain rescue team that resuscitated him.

Tommy Price, now 26, was attempting the round in January 2022 when hypothermia triggered a cardiac arrest high on Hall's Fell. Keswick Mountain Rescue found him lying face down in the snow, showing no signs of life, and made three attempts to restart his heart on the mountain before he was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.

His body temperature had fallen to 18C. Doctors warmed him to 37C before shocking his heart back into rhythm, then kept him in an induced coma for five days. The feeling in his hands and feet took a full year to come back properly.

He ran the London Marathon nine months after the arrest, before it had, in three hours and ten minutes. Of the attempt that nearly killed him he remembers nothing at all, he says, beyond the drive to the Lake District to start it.

Moot Hall

The Bob Graham Round begins and ends on the steps of the Moot Hall in Keswick, and when Price came down into the town this month the rescue team were standing outside it. Jonny Hulme, one of the first volunteers to reach him in 2022, had run the opening leg alongside him. Dr John Ferris, who accompanied him in the helicopter to Newcastle, was at the finish.

"Huge congratulations Tommy from everyone at the team," a spokesperson for the rescuers said.

Price said the team had given him a second chance.

I am very lucky to be alive and even luckier to be able to run still. It was unfinished business and I had to do it to finish the story.Tommy Price