Mr Legate had been raising money for two local charities

The mother of a man who died while climbing Mount Everest for charity has spoken of her "inspirational" son on the first anniversary of his death.

Peter Legate, 38, a business manager from Lymington, Hampshire, lost his footing and fell about 200 metres (655 feet) into a crevasse while attempting to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain in Nepal.

He had been raising money for two Hampshire children's charities, Children Say, a deaf charity, and Naomi Hospice.

In the 12 months since his death, his mother Margaret Legate, from Hythe, Hampshire, has continued the charity work he began, raising over �30,000.

She said: "I think carrying out the charity work has been therapeutic - we shed tears at home but we just try to go forward for Peter.

'Full of life'

"It has been a tough year - but it has also been an uplifting year - he had so many friends.

"It is nice to know a positive has come out of this," she said.

Friends, family and local schools and clubs in Hythe and Lymington have helped to raise the funds.

"A young, 11-year-old girl who Peter inspired at a school talk climbed Scafell Pike in the Lake District raising �130 towards the causes," Mrs Legate said.

"Peter was an inspirational man - he wanted to include the schools in what he did."

She said: "He would have been proud - we feel that we have just picked up the baton and run with it ourselves.

"He was full of life and that's how we choose to remember him," she said.