On hands & knees I beat Kilimanjaro
A MAN whose hips are held in place by screws has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro – sometimes on just his hands and knees.
Tim Megginson, 30, said the 19,000ft climb was “excruciating” but added: “I’m not letting my condition dictate my life.”
The former personal trainer was born with a genetic condition in which his hip sockets were too small to fit the thigh bones.
And severe arthritis robbed him of cartilage in the joints at the age of 23.
Surgeons reshaped his right hip and secured them both with screws but he now urgently requires a double hip replacement.
Tim, from Ely, Cambs, spent eight days on the Tanzanian peak and said: “People with injuries don’t have to lose their fitness.”