For some time now, everyone will have heard me say how much climbing out changed my life. After my gruelling cancer treatment, I was suffering really badly from PTSD and climbing out offered me a week long residential in the Lake District. It taught me how to grab every chance I get in life with both hands, and more importantly how to turn every ‘I can’t’ situation in to a ‘how can I’ situation.

Since completing the programme - climbing out has constantly been there to lend a helping hand to me in my recovery journey, giving me more and more experiences to do things I would never have done, such as climbing mount snowdon! The most important thing is, everyone at climbing out believes in me, and spurs me on to be the best version of me I can be!

In the spirit of ‘How Can I’, climbing out continued to support people like me during the covid pandemic, offering 1-1 coaching sessions, quiz nights and more! It is the most phenomenal charity and I have met the most amazing friends through doing this!

The amazing nature of climbing out doesn’t stop there! This summer climbing out is going to take some of us on a wilderness kayaking trip in Sweden/ canoeing trip in the Isles of Scilly (covid situation depending) to give us the opportunity of a life time and a chance to challenge ourselves at a new level!

Not only will this develop my confidence, but it will show me that I am capable of doing anything, despite my physical limitations!

I’ve been asked to fundraise for the expedition - but I would like to raise more than my target so I can give some of this money to climbing out as a charity so that they can reach more people like me! For every person climbing out can reach, there is one they can’t and I don’t know what situation I would be in without this charity.

Thank you so much for reading this and if you can spare anything towards this amazing cause, even sharing this fundraising page with your friends and family, I would be forever grateful!

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