S2 Ep5: Finding Our Way with Anoushé Husain – Paraclimbing, pain and the possible

Finding Our Way - Diverse Outdoor Voices

In this one we sit down with international paraclimber Anoushé Husain. She co-founded the group Paraclimbing London, competes internationally for the Luxembourg team, and recently became a Guinness World Record holder for the furthest distance climbed one-handed in one hour. She’s also a celebrated public speaker, an ambassador for Ehlers-Danlos Support, and Ambassador for Limb Power UK who work with amputees and people with limb difference. She’s also a practicing muslim and is married to paraclimber Kenneth Ellacott – we talk about that too!

• How social justice and climbing come together for Anoushé
• Discovering the paraclimbing community
• Do’s and Don’t’s for non-disabled climbers
• How climbing helps Anoushé manage her pain
• Meeting (and marrying) paraclimber Ken Ellacott
• Being Muslim
• Becoming a Guinness World Record Holder
• Training for the challenge & mastering a different climbing technique
• Coping with Covid lockdowns and a cancer scare
• What Anoushé ate for breakfast on her Guinness World Record attempt day
• The mental strength it’s given her and the appeal of endurance challenges – an extreme way of finding normality
• Being called ‘Inspirational’
• What’s next for Anoushé – training, and extending the paraclimbing community to Luxembourg

Show notes and full transcript available at https://www.thebmc.co.uk/
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