sport, leisure, travel
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Five adventurers with
function, Duncan Meerding is legally
something that had blind, Daniel Kojta had paraplegia
never been attempted and so pedalled with his hands,
before. Cycling over rough terrain, Conrad Wansborough lives with
through deserts and up mountains chronic pain after a spinal injury, and
for 2,152 kilometres would be hard I have hemiplegia with associated
Eyre (-15.2 metres), to the enough for anyone. sensory processing issues.
Kosciuszko (2,228 metres). challenging for this team was the could possibly go wrong?’ Well, when
fact that its five members all had I fell out of the back of the support
significant disabilities. vehicle and cracked two ribs on the
disabilities recently travelled
– using purely human power –
from Australia’s lowest
point, Kati Thanda-Lake
continent’s summit, Mount
One of those adventurers,
Tasmanian man Paul
Pritchard, shares their story.
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e were attempting
sport, leisure, travel
However, what made it more
Walter Van Praag has cystic
fibrosis and only 38 per cent lung
Our expedition tagline was ‘What
drive to the starting point, and when
our four-wheel-drive troopie hit an
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