Lawyers end climb on high, raising triple their target for amputee charity

Staff from Slater and Gordon’s Edinburgh office scaled Arthur’s Seat an incredible 72 times between the team of 12; the equivalent of 360km.

The trek, completed over 10 hours, raised more than £3,000 for Finding Your Feet, which runs sports and social clubs across Scotland for people facing amputation or limb difference.

It was also in support of the charity’s founder, Corinne Hutton – herself an amputee – who will be climbing Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, next month.

Sarah McWhirter, who volunteers for Finding Your Feet and is head of clinical negligence at Slater and Gordon in Edinburgh, said: “There are lots of different routes to the top of Arthur’s Seat but we chose quite a difficult one as we really wanted to challenge ourselves and we managed to do it 72 times, which is four times the distance of climbing Kilimanjaro.

“The great thing was that everyone exceeded their own personal challenge, completing the route more times that they initially thought they could.

“Corinne also joined us for a couple of hours and she really inspired us to keep going. She had never climbed Arthur’s Seat before so it was a bit of a goal for her too.”

The next meeting of Finding Your Feet is at Edinburgh International Climbing Arena at 12.30pm on Saturday, September 22.
For more information about the charity visit findingyourfeet.net or to sponsor Corinne go to stumpup.net.