BARCELONA, Spain -- A British team will race in the America’s Cup final for the first time since 1964 after beating Italians.

The British Athena Pathway team made history by taking victory in the opening race of the first Women's America's Cup. The team is one of 12 in the inaugural women's competition and ended the first day in second place overall after four races in Barcelona.

Of the 12 skippers who take to the water this weekend for the start of the first women's America's Cup, not one has had an opportunity to sail the AC75s used by their male counterparts.

Fay Manners (right) climbed Chaukhamba mountain with her climbing partner Michelle Dvorak (left) A British climber who went missing in the Himalayas has spoken of her relief after surviving for two days in "brutal" conditions that put her life in danger.

A British climber who was missing for three days in the Himalayas confirmed she is “back down and safe” after being rescued. Fay Manners, 37, and her friend from the US Michelle Dvorak, 31, were trekking up India ’s Chaukhamba mountain when they became unaccounted for on Thursday.

A British climber has been rescued from a mountain in India after going missing for three days. Fay Manners, 37, was trying to scale the Chaukhamba mountain in the north of the country - near the border with Nepal - alongside her friend Michelle Dvorak,