Finding Our Way - Diverse Outdoor Voices

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

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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/

    Follow Anoushé on social - https://www.instagram.com/anoushehusain/ https://anoushehusain.com/ 
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