Getting ready to climb Snowdon are the team from Vision Norfolk

Intrepid Quintet To Tackle Britain’s Third Highest Mountain To Support Norfolk’s Sight Loss Charity

Five members of staff at Norfolk’s sight loss charity – including one who has been blind since birth – are set to tackle the UK’s third highest mountain in a bid to raise money to boost the charity’s support for people living with sight loss.

The five, all of whom work for Vision Norfolk, will be climbing the 3,500ft Mount Snowdon in September.  Included in the group is Ed Bates, hub co-ordinator at the charity’s Great Yarmouth hub and who is blind, whose ambition to climb to base camp on Mount Everest was frustrated for medical reasons.

The quintet will be tackling the six hour trek with the aim of raising £5,000 to support Vision Norfolk’s work helping vision impaired people live independent and fulfilled lives.

Colleague Matthew Hodder, a community outreach worker who is based at the charity’s Great Yarmouth hub, said, “Ed is such an inspirational person, and when he heard that he would not be able to make the trip to Everest base camp, I half-jokingly suggested we should create our own Everest by climbing Snowdon – and the idea snowballed from there.”

Mr Bates and Mr Hodder will be joined on the expedition by chief executive Andrew Morter, services manager and deputy chief executive Barbara Dunn, and leisure and activities co-ordinator Helen King.

Anyone wishing to sponsor the quintet for their challenge can do so by visiting www.justgiving.com/campaign/snowdonchallenge2024.

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