S2 Ep5: Finding Our Way with Anoushé Husain – Paraclimbing, pain and the possible
Update: 2022-12-01
Description
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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