Sally’s pioneering wheelchair Nevis bid is summit else

By Michael MacLeod

A BRAVE Scotswoman has vowed to become the first person to climb Ben Nevis unaided in a wheelchair.

Sally Hyder, 47, who has multiple sclerosis, says she will not be “shackled down by this stupid disease.”

She is currently training to take on Britain’s highest mountain in a battery-powered off-road wheelchair in August.

And although wheelchair users have reached the 4,406ft-peak before, the path is so steep at the top that they have previously had to be carried to the summit.