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Darke is an ambassador for World Jenny's Day, a non-profit charitable organisation that brings awareness to teen suicide, and looks to normalise conversations around mental health. For her part, Darke will be riding across the 'Rooftop of Africa' on specially-designed hand-powered trikes in August
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from the chest down following an accident, aged 21, whilst sea cliff climbing. In 1996 she first hand-cycled across the
Himalaya from Kazakhstan to Pakistan, through the Indian Himalaya in 2005 and 2018, and across the Tibetan Plateau in 2014. In 2002 she was part of a team sea kayaking from Canada
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