Lots of people climb Mount Washington. But a North Country non-profit group is wants help to go beyond a normal ascent.
They need people for the Sunrise Ascent to help push and pull two children and three adults with disabilities to the top.
NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.
Sandy Olney is the head of Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country and she cherishes her volunteers but she calls them mules.
They will provide the muscle to get five adventurers with disabilities up the 7.6-mile auto road.
“They will all be using what is called a trail rider and it is a type of hiking chair that is a kind of cross between a wheel barrow and a rickshaw.”
They also provide fiscal power, paying a fee and raising funds.
Olney’s still looking for mules for the August 4th climb, her organization’s major fund raiser.
Meanwhile, teams are also raising money for Olney's organization. That includes Bella Hibberd, a Bethlehem Elementary School pupil who was born with cerebral palsy.
Sunday Bella’s supporters held a children’s fashion show.
Little girl’s voice - “Come on. It’s time to get on stage.”
It included some song.
Little girl singing twinkle, twinkle little star….
Bella, who is non-verbal, has made two other trips up Mount Washington and finds it thrilling, says her mother, April.
“She loves anything fun and exciting.”
And, Hibberd says, Bella thinks the dear, friends who help her being called mules is just hilarious.
For NHPR News this is Chris Jensen
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