A blind veteran from East Sussex has successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.
Mark Threadgold, 49 and from Saltdean, says: “It was a brilliant experience and couldn’t have gone better.
“I billed it as the trip of the lifetime and it absolutely was. It was a true privilege to stand on the roof of Africa.”
Mark completed the climb with a company called Charity Challenge, who arranged The Big Red Nose Climb for Comic Relief in 2009. He says: “They were absolutely on the ball, everyone from the top down worked their socks off.
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