NOW that's summit to write home about - SuBo Fever reaching the remote wilderness on Everest.

The Britain's got Talent star has a brave namesake - Scots doctor Suzanne Boyle, who spent ten weeks in charge of the world's highest hospital.

And Suzanne, 36, is set to be a TV star too-but not in Peak Practice.

Her work at Everest ER was filmed for a five-part BBC1 documentary series starting tomorrow.

The skilled anaesthetist has just returned to her a state-of-the-art operating theatre at Stirling Royal Infirmary after being at Base Camp to cover the spring rush to the summit, when weather conditions give the best chance of success.

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Suzanne, of Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, said: "It was very basic. The temperature was minus 20 and avalanches left our hospital and camp covered in snow. But I loved it."

Her hospital in the Himalayas, Nepal, was a tiny tent with only the most basic medical equipment to treat the complications of potentially lethal altitude sickness, frostbite and climbing injuries.

She said: "We had to be the nurse, the pharmacist, the doctor.

"There were several deaths while I was there, due to rock falls, ice falls and the wind sweeping people off the mountain.

"It is a dangerous place. The best you can do is issue advice and hope climbers have done all they can to minimise the risks."

But keen mountaineer Suzanne had no desire to hit the peak.

She said: "Some people have the physical and psychological capability and hats off to them - I just think it would be horrible."

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