A NURSE who has overcome Covid is gearing up for a monumental challenge to raise money for mental health services.
Respiratory specialist Cheryl Smith has worked with acutely ill patients in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee during the pandemic.
She was also struck down by the virus herself.
Now recovered, she is in training for a massive charity challenge – hiking the 550 mile Highland Trail across terrain with a total elevation gain of 54,700ft. Spread across some of Scotland’s most challenging terrain, the climb is equivalent to almost double the height of Mount Everest.
Smith, from Dundee, aims to start the adventure in mid-May, when she hopes restrictions will have lifted enough for her to trek out and wild camp as she goes from Stirlingshire to Sutherland, looping across the countryside hills and forests on her way there and back.