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Pendleton retired from observe biking following a profitable 2012 Olympics in London
Olympian champion Victoria Pendleton has mentioned she feels "psychologically and physiologically damaged" after she needed to pull out of a Mount Everest climb.
Last month, docs suggested the previous bicycle owner to chop the charity journey quick as a result of oxygen deficiency.
Pendleton advised Radio Times: "It's actually put me by the wringer... I've taken a actual battering. I've by no means felt so overwhelmed with sickness.
"I'm having good days and bad days. You just have to grin and bear it."
Doctors put her on medicine when she bought again to the UK, explaining that oxygen deprivation can set off depression.
"But I felt even further away from myself then," she advised the journal. "They've assured me that it's quite a normal thing and in time it will pass."
Pendleton was accompanied on her Everest journey by her pal, the TV presenter Ben Fogle. Their expedition, which had began in April, was filmed for a three-part documentary for CNN.
At the expedition's second camp, Pendleton stumbled into the tent she shared with Fogle and struggled to undo her jacket. Her lack of co-ordination and what she described as "a horrific headache, like knitting needles sticking in the back of my skull" had been indicators of hypoxiaa lack of oxygen.
Having proved herself as a skilled jockey following her retirement from biking, the double Olympic champion says she appreciated the concept of attempting equestrianism or clay pigeon capturing subsequent.
"Nick Skelton won showjumping gold at 58, didn't he, so there's still time!" she added.