#Tenacious Tuesday, honoring Karen Darke who has kayaked the length Canadian-Alaskan coast, climbed El Capitan in Yosemite, made her way onto the British Paralympic handcycling team (earning herself a silver medal) and traversed across the Greenland ice cap--oh, and shes paralyzed from the chest down. Other trips have included a crossing of the Tien Shan and Karakoram mountains of Central Asia on a hand bike (1997 and raising £12,000 for charity), handcycling the length of the Japanese archipelago (2000), crossing the Indian Himalaya by handcycle (2006) and skiing the Valle Blanche on a sit ski. Not being able to move or feel anything below my chest level has of course been a challenge, but I’ve come to learn that nothing is impossible if we set our mind and our efforts to it. Website: karendarke
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:31:00 +0000
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