Horsham podiatrist gives her own feet a challenge by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

In just one weeks’ time, Horsham based Podiatrist Kathryn Tyler will swap spending her days examining and treating the feet of patients in her busy Clockhouse Podiatry practice, and will instead be using her own feet to climb the highest freestanding mountain in the world, Kilimanjaro.
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Kathryn Tyler

The trip in total will last 11 days, with 7 of those on the mountain itself, the rest is spent visiting local schools and projects supported by the Village Education Project Kilimanjaro (VEPK), who over the last 20 years have achieved remarkable results in enabling local children to receive a proper education, and also providing vocational training for young adults to help them develop the skills necessary to earn a decent living wage.

While being excited about the challenge ahead, Kathryn isn’t expecting it to be easy going – ‘We’ve been training locally on the South Downs and Surrey Hills, and also spent a weekend training in Snowdonia’ she explained ‘But the summit of Kilimanjaro is 5985 metres, which is more than five times the altitude of Snowdon, this means we are having to cope with half the oxygen levels we are used to.

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I got involved in this adventure quite late in the day, so have been cramming training in whenever I can, and I hope to raise both awareness of the important work that VEPK do, and some much needed funds for their work, ‘I’m very grateful for all the help and support I’ve received from our patients at Clockhouse Podiatry, friends and family who have very generously sponsored me and loaned a lot of the equipment needed for the climb. Thank you to all of you, and I look forward to seeing you on my return – once I‘ve showered!’

So if you see a determined looking podiatrist striding by this week, you’ll know why. For more information on the VEPK, please visit their website www.kiliproject.org/ You can read more about the trip, and sponsor Kathryn on her Virgin Money Sponsorship page here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KathrynPrice-Francis

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