Dan Walker has addressed allegations he took an aircraft from the summit after climbing Kilimanjaro to raise money for Comic Relief. The 42-year-old presenter was asked whether he took a different route following the trek with stars including former Labour MP Ed Balls and Love Island 2018 winner Dani Dyer. On Twitter, a user who goes by the name of Andy Pandy seemed to question whether the BBC Breakfast host and his co-stars cheated. They quizzed: “Did you go back a different route? I was worried they were going to make you descend that almost vertical section.
“Congratulations on a great achievement, some great TV, and the amount of money raised.”
Dispelling the rumours, Dan replied in view of his 557,000 followers: “Thank you. We did a different route on the way down.”
Going into detail about their journey down Africa’s tallest mountain, he added: “We walked the Northern Circuit up (which is long and not so popular) and then we went a much quicker way down.
“I know there was a rumour that we got a chopper from the summit but that’s just not true.”
The father-of-five scaled the huge mountain with a host of famous faces to raise funds for Comic Relief and help support its projects in the UK.
He recently revealed the stars had raised a whopping £27.7million
