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Kandla Hodgins is seen posing at the base camp for the Anal climb to Mount Everest In Nepal. Hodgins took part In a
climb as a fundraiser tor a cause near to her heart, the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Local climber
raises $21K
for MS
Cheryl Heath
Lakeshore Advance
One of Grand Bend's own took a
cause that is near and dear to heart to
the top of the world.
Twenty-three year-old Kandis
Hodgins, a community developer
with the Community Heath Centre in
Forest, recently returned from a
three-week trip to Nepal, where she
joined nine other Multiple Sclerosis
Society supporters on an eight-day
hike to Mount Everest's renowned
base camp, which is at 17,000 feet and
marks the official start of the trek to
the world's tallest peak at 29,000 feet.
The feat proved to be everything
Hodgins thought it would be and
more.
"It was harder than I thought it'd
be," she says, noting that even though
she trained almost every day before
taking the 20 -hour airplane trip to
Katmandu, the climb proved to be
more arduous than she ever thought
possible.
But it also wits an invaluable expe-
rience as it brought her a closer
understanding of what her nom Lori,
an Multiple Sclerosis sufferer, goes
through. Hodgins says the altitude
sickness medication she took made
her face, feet and hands feel numb,
which is something her mom deals
with every day. The Dick of oxygen
afforded by the mountain clinch also
left Hodgins identifying with her
mother's daily struggles.
"1 found myself thinking of the
fatigue that comes with MS," she says.
"I'd think of my mom climbing up it
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