A MOUNTAIN OF AN ACHIEVEMENT

It started with a sensation, like pins and needles, down her right side. Then weakness, vision problems and difficulty breathing. By the time Katy Glenie had an MRI scan and was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis two years ago, she says it was actually a relief.

“I knew something was seriously wrong and this finally gave me a name and something to focus my attention on,” Glenie says.

But then she felt her world begin to shrink. A keen tramper, climber and mountaineer, she says being outdoors and physically active was “pretty much the soul of my life”. Once diagnosed, she began to prepare for life without that ‘soul’.

“I thought it would be the end of my outdoor life,” she says. “I thought I wouldn’t