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A British woman was gored through the leg by a yak while climbing Mount Everest as she Facetime her family back in the UK.
Emma Keen, 42, was bleeding heavily after the yak's horn tore through her leg leaving her with a three-inch cut.
The shop manager was on a 80-mile mission to trek to Everest base camp when she was attacked on the fourth day of the trek at the village of Tengboche.
Ms Keen, from South Wales, was speaking to her brother on Facetime when she saw the yak and turned the camera to show off the mammal, which was just six feet away from her.
She said: 'Without warning I could hear the hoofs pounding towards me, a sharp stabbing pain in the top of my leg. It threw me up in the air around a metre and I landed back down with a thud.
Emma Keen (pictured after reaching the Mount Everest Base Camp), 42, was bleeding heavily after the yak's horn tore through her leg leaving her with a three-inch cut
Ms Keen, from South Wales, was speaking to her brother on Facetime when she saw the yak and turned the camera to show off the mammal, which was just six feet away from her (file image of yaks on Mount Everest)
Ms Keen (pictured) said about the attack: 'Without warning I could hear the hoofs pounding towards me, a sharp stabbing pain in the top of my leg. It threw me up in the air around a metre and I landed back down with a thud'
'Clutching my upper leg I looked and the yak was dragging its hoof in the dusty ground ready to go at me for a second time with his horns down. I screamed and managed to raise my leg and shout.'
A fellow team-member raised the alarm to get medical help for Ms Keen, who was bleeding heavily.
She received emergency first aid from other members of the trek group before being airlifted to hospital.
She needed ten stitches on her leg following the horror injury.
Luckily firefighter Carl Marsh was also on the trek and was able to help Ms Keen thanks to his medical training in the fire service.
He said: 'We had just arrived and we were enjoying our first coffee to warm us up when one of the team came running
