A former rugby player who suffered severe spinal injuries is to cross the largest ice cap in western Europe.
Ed Jackson, who was BBC's West's Unsung Hero in 2021, will join two others to become the first fully disabled team to traverse Iceland's Vatnajokull Glacier.The former Bath and England player said: "Normally I would say I'm just excited. But actually for this one I think I am a little bit nervous." After an accident in 2017, Mr Jackson, who lives near Bath, was told by doctors he might never walk again.The men will work as a team, tethered together by a rope with no other assistance
But he defied his doctors' predictions by taking on multiple challenges including reaching the top of Snowdon the year after his accident, and climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest by going up and down his parents' staircase during the pandemic."It's been a massive part of my own recovery to find that sense of purpose again and to challenge myself," said Mr Jackson.
For his next challenge, Mr Jackson, 34, is joined by former-mountaineer and army reservist Darren Edwards, 32 and biologist Dr Niall McCann, 41, who each had an accident which resulted in a spinal cord injury and various disabilities.
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