Accident-prone climber Alan Hinkes has had another mishap on the eve of a trip to the Alps.

Mr Hinkes, who is attempting to be the first Briton to climb all 14 mountains in the world over 8,000m (26,000ft) broke his little toe while running around in his home town of Northallerton.

A few weeks ago he snapped a tendon in his middle finger on his left hand, while on a climbing wall.

In the past, he has slipped a disc by sneezing too hard while on the side of one of the world's highest peaks.

He has also broken his arm in a fall and escaped a blazing building, during an expedition.

Despite his latest catastrophe Alan is determined this week to climb Monte Rosa, the second highest peak in the Alps, even though medics have told him to rest up.

He said: "I am the luckiest man in the world because I am still alive after all the climbing accidents I have had.

"But I feel a fool breaking my toe by racing for the phone and kicking a door frame.

"It is badly swollen and tender and with my damaged finger will present a problem.

"But I am hoping it will settle down quickly, because I am determined to climb that mountain. It is unfortunate that it has happened, but it is only pain and I have a high pain threshold."

In June last year he fell though a snow ridge into a deep crevasse on the Himalayan mountain Kangchenjunga, the third highest in the world.

Climbing alone, he suffered a broken arm.

After scaling the feared peak of Makalu, in Nepal, in 1999, he was almost killed when an electrical fault caused a blaze in the hotel in Kathmandu where he was staying, following his successful climb.

Two years earlier he hit the headlines when he sneezed on flour from a chapati and slipped a disc while climbing Nanga Parbat.