'˜Personal challenge' hits high and low points

Jennie Tindall reaches the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro

Jennie, of Feversham Close, Shoreham Beach, hurt her foot on Mount Kilimanjaro and later discovered she had broken a bone.

She said: “I went to Tanzania, climbed the mountain – bashed my foot at midnight on the final ascent and found out a few days later in a Tanzanian hospital that I’d broken a bone.

“So now I have a big ski boot from the wonderful NHS for six weeks.”

Jennie had taken on the climb for Hove charity Kiya Survivors as a personal challenge.

She said she had battled breast cancer six years ago and saw the climb as a test of her fitness and endurance.

She joined a guided, two-week trek from October 17 to 27 for an experience of a lifetime.

The trip included visits to the community projects being supported by Kiya Survivors, a UK initiative aiming to provide communities in Tanzania with the tools and knowledge to become more sustainable.

Jennie said: “The money I raise from my climb will go directly to employing a local teacher for a small projected based in Arusha, Tanzania.”