Walk 4Water a success for double amputee

Spencer West, centre, is joined by friends David Johnson, left, and Alex Meers, along with students from Mountain Park School at the closing celebration for Free The Children’s We Walk 4Water campaign on Thursday. Photograph by: Stuart Gradon , Calgary Herald

Spencer West completes gruelling journey to raise funds for clean water

Walk 4Water a success for double amputee

By Tamara Gignac, Calgary Herald May 16, 2013

CALGARY — After 11 gruelling days and 300 kilometres of unforgiving Alberta highway, a jubilant but exhausted Spencer West crossed the finish line on his hands Thursday amid the cheers of Calgary schoolchildren.

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Canadians Walk 4 Water so Kenyans don't have to

Photograph by: Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald

Legless adventurer raising funds for Free The Children

By Michele Jarvie, Calgary Herald May 6, 2013

Spencer West has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and will be walking and wheeling from Edmonton to Calgary May 6-16, 2013. West will do the walk on his hands and in his wheelchair, with the goal of raising $150,000 for the Free The Children’s Water Initiative. West lost both of his legs at the age of five as a result of a genetic disorder.
 
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