Summary
She's been to some of the world's wildest places - and now disabled adventurer Karen Darke's next task is to get to the South Pole using arm power alone, finds Roger Cox
IT'S hard to know how to begin an interview with Karen Darke, which of her many incredible exploits to ask about first. In the past decade this Inverness-based explorer has kayaked to the remote San Rafael Glacier in Patagonia, handcycled the length of the Japanese archipelago and scaled the face of Colorado's iconic El Capitan. She has also completed a gruelling 600km traverse of the Greenland ice cap on a sit-ski, and is now preparing for a record- breaking expedition to the South Pole.See the full content of this document
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The Fall and Rise of Karen Drake
Of all these adventures, though, her 2007 El Capitan climb is the most remarkable - not only because it represents a monumental feat of endurance, but because it was the first mountaineering project she attempted since being paralysed from the chest down in a climbing accident in 1993.
"I think El Cap is the one thing I've done which I can genuinely say I didn't enjoy at the time," sh...See the full content of this document
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