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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

‘Don’t write me off because I’m in a wheelchair’: Manchester Arena survivor takes on Kilimanjaro

Martin Hibbert will attempt to scale Mount Kilimanjaro.
Martin Hibbert will attempt to scale Mount Kilimanjaro. Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian

It was a month after the Manchester Arena attack when Martin Hibbert learned the catastrophic toll of his injuries. He and his 14-year-old daughter, Eve, on a “daddy daughter day” to an Ariana Grande concert, were 5 metres from the explosion that killed 22 people and injured hundreds more in May 2017.

Hibbert, 45, from Chorley in Lancashire, was told he would never walk again. Eve would probably never see, hear, speak or move – if she made it out of hospital. They were the closest to the bomb to survive.

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