Rosie puts boot into BA

Queen elizabeth’s intrepid cousin rosie Stancer is the polar explorer who once cut off two toes when in agony with frostbite. Now, she’s found herself in another spot of bother, thanks to British Airways.

Stancer, 62, is trekking through America’s spectacular Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern utah, in agony because of her uncomfortable footwear after a travel mishap. The diminutive adventurer arrived in America for her latest expedition without her special boots.

‘Feeling a bit ill-weathered in ill- fitting hiking boots,’ she wails. ‘BA lost my luggage.’

In 2021, she became the first person to cross the Aral Sea by foot. She walked 19 miles a day for 17 days, crossing the driedup lake which lies between Kazakhstan and uzbekistan.