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Mountaineer Jo Bradshaw has scaled five of the world’s Seven Summits, including Everest and Aconcagua, and has her sights on summiting the remaining two before the year is out. But she wasn’t always so gung-ho. In fact, rewind several years and Jo was a self-confessed ‘no-sayer’ who lived well within her comfort zone.

Here Jo writes about how, through experience, choices and failure, she was able to build a resilient mindset and go on to conquer her fears as well as the world’s most iconic mountains.

If it’s been your lifelong dream to see up-close how a mountain expedition works, you won’t want to miss this: an opportunity to hike up to Camp 1, at 5700m on Ama Dablam, Nepal, with record-breaking British Mountaineer, Holly Budge.

Holly, who I interviewed back in April, is fresh from summiting Everest and has a second climb of Ama Dablam in her sights. She’s now organising a special group of 15 trekkers to hike with her up to 5700m, in tandem with her own expedition to scale Ama Dablam.

Best news of all? You don’t need any previous trekking experience.