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On Saturday 22nd August 2009 Jayne Wallace, Dave Mathew, Brian and Thomas Davis are tackling:

The Abyss Triple Whammy challenge

This involves a zip wire jump, followed by a free abseil (into thin air rather than against a building or mountainside) and finishing with a powerfan descent.

We are taking this challenge to promote awareness of ataxia and to raise much needed funds for Ataxia - the ’s leading support and research charity for people with ataxia, their families and carers.

Very few people will have heard about ataxia so please read on:

'Ataxia' means ‘absence of order’. People with ataxia have problems of co-ordination because parts of the nervous system that normally control co-ordination and balance are affected.

Ataxia is the principal symptom of a group of neurological disorders called the cerebellar ataxias. Most are which progressive.
This rare neurological disorder affects only about 10,000 adults in the  including Jayne, Dave and Brian and an unknown number of children and young people, although there are different types of ataxia one thing is common - there is currently NO CURE or effective treatment.

Ataxia affects co-ordination, balance, gait and speech - people with ataxia are often mistaken for being drunk which is embarrassing and awkward but more seriously can lead to people with ataxia being stigmatised or discriminated against.