What do you get when you cross a mountain with a wheelchair?
Or should I say, ten wheelchairs? You get Julie McElroy, a truly DisAbled female from Scotland who, despite her own walking difficulties, caused by Cerebral Palsy, has agreed to take part in a challenge to help push ten wheelchair users up Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, to help raise money for the CP charity, Scope, and Capability Scotland!
And she has already spent four weeks crossing the Andes mountain range in South America, something that will see her featured on the BBC2 series Beyond Boundaries: Across the Andes later this year.
Now I like to think of myself as being DisAbled. Julie McElroy’s DisAbilities are scarily similar to mine, but you won’t find me agreeing to climb any mountains any time soon, wheelchair-using friends or not! That is, of course, unless you count the staircase in my house… That’s enough of a mountain for me, thank you very much!
Julie McElroy and her companions may be about to put me to shame, but all 11 of them are exactly the kind of DisAbled inspirations that we love to blog about here at Remembering The Ability in Disability. I truly wish them all the best with this very difficult challenge. I’m just not sure if anyone will ever follow in their footsteps… er… I meant tyre tracks!
Update 2/4: Apparently the organisers are still looking for volunteers for this event…
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