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JOHN CRAVEN

Amar Latif and I share a common love for walking in the Yorkshire Dales, but unlike me, he can’t see the glorious sweep of landscape all around him. Amar is blind but – as he proved in Beyond Boundaries, his debut television appearance years ago when he trekked 220 miles across Central America – he

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