Natsha Lambert

Disabled sailor and adventurer

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Mountain climbing

13th April 2018 By Amanda Lambert

Pen y fan successfully climbed 2014 – my first mountain climb! – took months of planning, firstly finding a mountain that would be suitable with a good path then sending 2 members of our team to survey it plus lots of walking practice to build up to the climb !

I may not be able to walk unaided but with the help of a hart walker I have been walking since I was 3 and absolutely love it! I walk every day. It usually takes 2 people to help get me in the brace and on the wheels .

This is my best bit of kit as well as my boat of course!

With the help of my walker I can climb mountains!

Think I’m probably the first person with cerebral palsy to climb a mountain with a walker!🏔

So far I have climbed Pen y fan in Wales, Kippur in the Wicklow mountains Ireland and the biggest Cairngorm in Scotland . Plans for the future …definitely more mountain climbing!!

Always looking for more challenges if anyone knows of a fairly accessible Mountain please get in touch! 😉😃

Filed Under: Challenges Tagged With: Mountains cerebral palsy climbing with CP Athertoid Cerebral Palsy Climbing using a Hart

Natasha’s equipment

22nd March 2018 By Amanda Lambert

I’m Amanda, Natasha’s Mum and I will be blogging mostly about Natasha’s equipment.

To enable Natasha to lead the very active life she loves, there are various pieces of kit that help her – our house is full of specialist equipment, wheelchairs, walkers, Physiotherapy aids , tech stuff and lots lots of Velcro and lots of spare parts! Gary is always fixing or adjusting something! I spend lots of time ordering the spares, looking at new bits of kit and making appointments! For example Today’s job is replacing a knee joint on the walker and then ordering up some replacements…

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Calvert Trust

19th March 2018 By Natasha Lambert

  • The Calvert Trust is located in the lake district, and offers tons of great outdoor experiences for people with disabilities (and their families!). We recenly visited them for a weekend, and Natasha hadn’t been back since she was 10! This was where she originally fell in love with sailing.

It can be hard to know what Natasha is capable of until you meet her, but our guide, Chris, did an excellent job of sussing it out when we arrived. We traded the (somewhat passive) canoe ride for a morning spent rock climbing and swinging from the ceiling. We traded a leisurely walk in the valley of the mountains for a hike up Latrigg. It was great fun and the views of the beautiful lake district were paired with a fantastic facility. The food was pretty great too!

Natasha likes to be as independent as possible, so the more she can particpate in the activities, the better. Chris picked up on that and made our experience there really wonderful. Next time, though, an even bigger mountain!

by sarah

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Tough Mudder

5th October 2017 By Natasha Lambert

  1. 24th September 2017 a team of 16 of us took part in a Tough Mudder event near London. We all completed all 13 obstacles. It was absolutely crazy! We were all caked in mud from the start it was really tough getting the wheelchair through the mud . Luckily we had 7 strong lads to help. Each obstacle had to be thought about and each one seemed harder and harder especially as we had more and more mud everywhere on us! Really didn’t like it in my eyes and up my nose! An absolutely incredible day spurred on by everyone’s encouragement along the way with other teams and individuals helping. Fantastic atmosphere and great team spirit. For me being able to take part in this awesome event was just so much fun I loved being part of the team. My wheelchair still had mud in all sorts of places even after hosing it down showering it it took days to get clean enough to use and even now we still seem to find reminders!

Our team raised £1,200 for whiz Kidz to help towards buying wheelchairs and mobility aids for young people!

Filed Under: Challenges, News

Mountain, Loch, Lock and Sea – all done

5th August 2016 By Site Admin

August 2016

Natasha has completed her latest challenge – Sea and Summit, Scotland.  She arrived at Clyde Marina at 4.30 on Thursday, Fourth August after a lively sail from Largs, on the Firth of Clyde.

Natasha LambertNatasha Lambert, 19, has climbed Cairngorm mountain, sailed through Lochs and Sounds in the Highlands and negotiated two famous Scottish canals, the Caledonian and the Crinan.

Such adventures would be taxing for any young person, but Natasha has athetoid cerebral palsy. She uses a wheel chair and has little control over her movements and speech.

The expedition began at Inverness marina on Monday 18 July after months of planning and training.

For the sailing part of the challenge she took to her adapted twenty-one-foot yacht Miss Isle Too, which she sails using only her breath.

To tackle the mountain Natasha used a Hart Walker. This device allows Natasha to stand upright which then means she can propel herself forward. The ascent and descent of the famous Cairngorm mountain, the sixth highest peak in Britain, took over five and a half hours. A support team, including her parents, sister and a safety adviser from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, were on hand to help Natasha up and down over the steep, rough terrain and to celebrate on the very windy peak.  Footage of the climb gained tens of thousands of admiring views on social media.

Back on the water Natasha spent many hours sitting in the special canting seat in her yacht. Natasha’s condition means she needs to be in the seat every moment she is on board. This is especially challenging on the canals when she can spend hours waiting to go through locks. At no time did Natasha opt to get out of the boat, other than on the Crinan Canal when she took to her walker to learn how to operate the manual locks with the rest of her team.

Natasha undertakes her challenges for two reasons, to raise funds and to raise awareness. She has already received a British Empire Medal for her previous fund raising efforts. This time she is raising funds for her charity, the Miss Isle School of Sip Puff Sailing. The School gives young people like Natasha the chance to get out on the water and sail, using their breath to control the boat.

The raising of awareness is equally important to Natasha as she grows older. Her level of determination is becoming well known. It’s this that she hopes will inspire others with similar conditions. Rather than taking a traditional holiday Natasha and her family embark on the challenges to highlight just what can be achieved despite the pressures and needs arising from Natasha’s condition.

Filed Under: Challenges Tagged With: sea and summit scotland

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