Long Rhodes to recovery

April 2015

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April 2015

Heather Rhodes on a trip o Mueller Hut almost one and a half years after her accident.
A mountaineering accident that she was lucky to survive hasn’t prevented Heather Rhodes from returning to the mountains she loves, but the road to recovery has not been easy, she tells Edith Leigh.   It took 15 months for Heather Rhodes to begin to realise “how broken” she was after a horrific mountaineering fall left […]

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