A man with a neurological condition, which has left him “slowly becoming disabled”, has spoken of the elation he felt after summiting Snowdon and the hope that it raises awareness for the disease.
Ben Spencer has a progressive degenerative form of Ataxia, a neurological condition that affects his speech, balance, coordination and swallowing.He summited and descended Mount Snowdon – the highest mountain in Wales – in around 16-and-a-half hours on Wednesday using a combination of a wheelchair, rollator and specially adapted walking sticks, describing the experience as “emotional”.
“I felt really excited and I was really elated to get to the top – there were about 20 or 30 people that were waiting for me at the top and I didn’t know these people, but they all started clapping and cheering, so I got a bit emotional.” “I’m basically reliant on my partner Richard to help me get to the local bus or tube station now”, he said.
“I’ve been seeing doctors on and off and the odd neurologist for about 15 years and it took about 15 years for me to get to the point where they diagnosed me with Ataxia because it kept getting mistaken for other things”, he said.To raise awareness of the everyday impact of Ataxia, Mr Spencer filmed how he travelled to Snowdon’s base camp to highlight how accessible the journey there is.
Planning for and training for the climb to make sure it was viable also involved using Streetview to try to access the gradient of the paths and look for obstacles, and ensuring enough people assisted Mr Spencer on the climb to make sure he had the resources he needed.
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