In April 2023, myself and two others with life changing spinal cord injuries will attempt to cross Vatnajokull, the largest ice cap in Western Europe. They will be linked together by a single rope, and without any support or guidance will make the journey as a united team. One an adventurer, one a professional rugby player, and one a soldier and a mountaineer. Each of us have had everything that gave us purpose and meaning stripped away from us. We have each faced the possibility that everything we'd ever dreamt of having was going to be gone forever. But, in our own unique way, each of us recovered.

We have set out to raise vital funds for the Millimetres 2 Mountains Foundation to help more people aid their recovery from trauma by using the great outdoors. Not only that, we want to use this expedition to show that sometimes a terrible diagnosis is not necessarily a terrible prognosis. You can still go on to achieve amazing things with your life within the realms of a body that isn't quite as able as it was before.

Be that someone like Niall McCann who is incomplete paraplegic, myself who is incomplete quadriplegic or Darren Edwards who is complete paraplegic. The biggest barrier is often inside people's heads, and we want to remove that barrier.

Storms, crevasses, temperatures down to -20 and limited visibility - these are just what the ice cap will throw at us. Add in the challenges of operating in this environment when you have little or no sensation below the waist and all have to fit in one tent and this goes from a tough expedition to a monumental one.

Thank you for your support!