Mr Edwards lost his left leg below the knee five years ago when he was involved in a traffic collision while commuting to work on his motorbike
An amputee who used crutches to hike to the summit of Snowdon said “it definitely kept me going” to remember the cause he has raised more than £1,000 for.
, but along with his friend Jack Sharpe and Mr Sharpe’s 13-year-old nephew reached the summit of Mount Snowdon in North Wales on Saturday.Matt Edwards crutched himself to the Snowdon summit and back “It definitely kept me going the whole time, I was thinking about my family, and my missus’ family, and affected them last year.
Mr Edwards said that due to a lack of family support at the time and finding it “physically and mentally hard” to process the accident that resulted in the amputation, he turned to alcohol and drugs, and spent time in rehab for three weeks from February to March 2019.
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