Paralympian
Geoscientist 22.09 October 2012
Dawne Riddle writes: Fellows watching the Paralympics may well be interested to know more about geologist Dr Karen Darke (
www.karendarke.com), who first entered the Paracycling World Cup in 2009. She formed part of the British Cycling team in the road race on a hand-cycle. Darke has been paralysed from the waist down since a climbing accident 20 years ago, when she was 21.
By then she had already climbed Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, but has since climbed El Capitan (Yosemite), kayaked the Alaska coastline and skied across Greenland. Next year she will attempt to reach the South pole. She has written two books about her life, the second of which is out shortly and is called Boundless