Natasha Lambert ready for next sailing challenge

NATASHA Lambert is busy preparing for her next adventure - Sea and Summit Ireland. The 19-year-old adventurer, who, with the support of her parents, has proven disability need not be a barrier to completing challenges, is not only planning to sail across the Irish Sea on July 17 but down the coast from Belfast to Dublin - and then scale a mountain in the Wicklow National Park. The challenge, made possible by the invention of her father, Gary, which enables her to sail by the power of pressure from a gentle breath, and climb with the aid of a special brace and wheels, was featured in a recent BBC South programme, Invented in the South. Natasha will be fundraising for the charity established by the family, the MissIsle School, which helps others with limited mobility to sail, and Cowes RNLI. Natasha has athetoid cerebral palsy, which means she has movements she cannot control. Despite that, the inspirational teenager has not only sailed around the Island, but also across the English Channel, to Wales, around Scotland, and from Cowes to Tower Bridge. She has also climbed two mountains. Natasha can be sponsored at tinyurl.com/IWCP-ISC