Why Leah Jay participates in the Big Freeze: to rid the world of MND

By Amy de Lore
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:31pm, first published June 23 2018 - 3:00pm
Climbing for good: Newcastle woman Leah Jay on her Everest trek in 2017.
Climbing for good: Newcastle woman Leah Jay on her Everest trek in 2017.

As she pushed towards the summit of Everest in the pre-dawn on May 22 last year – every step in slow motion, gasping for breath in the high-altitude air – Leah Jay thought not of her discomfort, the cold, the dark, the sheer drops on either side of the narrow ridge she was traversing, nor even the elusive prize that lay a just ahead at the top of the mountain. Instead, her thoughts were consumed by the struggles and fears of another.

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