An Edinburgh nurse has become the 77th person in the world to climb every mountain in the UK above 2,000ft.
The NHS worker says she would often leave the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the dark after a 12 hour shift in order to take on the challenge.
Sunny Huang moved to Edinburgh 16 years ago to train to become a nurse. She has now spent just two years climbing over 1,000 hills across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
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The nurse, who works full-time in the transplant theatre, completed the challenge on Saturday October 1 by taking on the Pap of Glencoe surrounded by friends, family and colleagues.
After facing poverty throughout her childhood, Sunny wanted to raise money for Christian Aid and has raised over £4,000 for the charity.
The determined adventurer made her way to the peak of the hill wearing a kilt over her walking trousers, proudly carrying a Chinese and Scottish flag to celebrate the two countries. Over 50 walkers joined her on the summit making a pathway to the top while a fellow walker and bagpiper, piped her to victory.
The hero nurse celebrated the achievement of climbing all six lists of SMC (Scottish Mountaineering Club) consisting of 1124 hills within the UK and Ireland all of which are above 2000 feet with a ceilidh and dinner with friends in Tyndrum.
Sunny's schedule was to have this challenge completed in 2026, but due to sheer determination, many tears and bloody bites and blisters and injuries she shortened the timescale by four years.
The transplant nurse said: "I was brought up in a very poor family, in my childhood memories all I remember was me and my brother were always hungry. There were so many different kinds of food I had never tried or even knew existed until I started nursing school in Scotland.
"Now my colleagues might find it funny when they see me taking every single drop out of my lunch box while making a squeaky noise but it's not because of I am hungry, it is because I had to build up a habit of not to wasting food since I was little. I don't like waste."
She explained how much the hard times stuck with her and were a driving force behind raising the money for charity.
She said: "I remember when my parents couldn't afford buy clothes for us, me and my brother would always wear clothes given to us by other people which they no longer wanted, and my grandma made shoes for us by her own hands with the recycling material.
"They were extremely ugly and uncomfortable, we always got made fun of by the kids at school, they called our shoes- 'big veg steam dumplings'. We were two very different kids from everyone else at school.
"Now I don't have all those problems anymore, I am not rich but at least I have enough to feed myself and have a roof over our heads. I always want to help eradicate poverty, therefore I am helping Christian Aid in making their vision to end poverty become reality" she said.
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She added: "Thank you for all your support of this momentous challenge . The focus of this challenge is to help Christian Aid raise much needed funds for their project specifically in helping African children.
"If you wish to donate to this worthy cause please donate by clicking the above link, the money raise will go where the need is greatest.
"This might be in Africa, e.g. Ethiopia or Kenya where there is currently a severe drought or another part of world like Bangladesh which was recently impacted by major flooding."
You can find out more and donate to the fundraiser here.
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