Guest Speaker

We went to Clarens to see the magnificent Jamie Andrew who is a Scottish mountaineer. Unfortunately, he had a very bad experience with his best friend, Jamie Fischer, who died right next to him at the top of the French Alps. Although he was lucky to survive, he had terrible frost bite and had to have both hands and feet amputated otherwise he would have died. After being in the hospital for 6 months, he still continued mountaineering and many other sports for example: skiing, rock climbing, ice climbing, snowboarding and most important of all, marathon running. He also had three babies with his wife who stayed with him the whole time in the hospital. After this really sad story, he juggled for us with tennis rackets stuck to his arms. It was really fun to see. So after all, that day wasn`t so sad! His story was just magnificent!

By Mara and Chloé