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Sunday Mail: Challenge Karen Darke

Written by Fiona

January 26 2015

Despite being left paralysed in a climbing accident in her early 20s, Karen Darke continues to take on outdoors challenges that many able bodied people would dismiss as utterly bonkers.

 

The extraordinary Scottish para-cyclist and adventurer told me how she overcomes the seemingly impossible and reveals a little of what she will be talking about during her guest lecture, Boundless, at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival 2015. Read the full pdfs left and right.

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