Hey!
 
Well i've achieved, in what i set out to do.  I got the train to Bangor (North Wales) on Tuesday morning 27th, I then cycled the 12 miles to Llanberis, booked myself into the hostel and then got geared up ready to tackle Mt Snowdon and set off at  2.00 pm.
 
 Snowdon was easy!! (I wish)I got back to hostel at 9.00 pm, got showered changed and ate loads, eventully fell asleep around 11.00 pm.
 
Got up at 4.30 am left the hostel at 5.30 am to begin my mammouth 120 mile cycle ride to the Brecon Becons.  I arrived in Brecon at 8:30 pm.
 
It was starting to get dark by this time and it would have taken me over 3 hours to hike up and over the Pen-Y-Fan and it would've been too dangerous for me to be up there by myself. I decided to cycle around the mountain and i finished at the Storey Arms 9:30 pm
 
I was hoping to achieve this within 24 hrs but it took 31.5 hrs in the end.
 
 
 
If it wasn't for the paramedic (Simon Morgan) who got to me first, I would've died on the hill on 28th July 2007. The care that i received in the following 5 months in hospital was outstanding.  They surgeons and staff did everything possible to to enable me to walk again.
 
But it was ME!! who worked my bol----s off to get fit and well to enable me to do this.
 
Thankyou all very! very! very! much for your donations.
 
Till the next time.
 
Adrian Key x
          

On the 28th of July 2007 I had an horrific paragliding accident  (yes, I should be dead!),  and I had to be air lifted to hospital.  I was flown to hospital by an RAF helicopter from  Chivenor, Devon because I had to be winched off the side of the mountain.  

Wales Air Ambulance do not have the winch facility on their helicopters, but the air rescue support service that they provide is invaluble. For them to operate this service it costs £5 million a year and each mission costs approximately £1200.  Each helicopter costs £3.5 million and there are only 3 of them in Wales - 3!!!  On each aircraft there are a pilot and 2 paramedics who are not paid a wage from our government but rely on charitable donations and the occasional pay out from the Lottery/Lotto whatever it's called now.

On July 28th 2010 which will be three years since i had accident. I am going to hike up & over Mount Snowdon the highest mountain in North Wales, then cycle the 135 miles to Brecon and then hike up & over the Pen-y-Fan, the highest mountain in South Wales all within the 24 hour period I'm  hoping to  raise awareness of what Wales Air Ambulance do and to raise funds to help them.

The stark reality http://www.youtube.com/user/Adekey321#p/u/0/CHPE

Below is an article from the Western Mail on 30th November 2009.

Adrian Key was barely alive after he lost control of the craft and crashed into the side of a mountain between Merthyr Tydfil and Fochriw two years ago.

Today, the 37-year-old, who lives in Little Mill, regularly cycles 15 miles to work and back as he continues to recover from his horrific injuries.

He has been joined on his training rides by 42-year-old Simon Morgan, the paramedic he believes saved his life.

Adrian, an experienced parachutist and skydiver, crashed into the mountainside in July 2007 at a speed of 30mph, plunging 100 feet in his paraglider and crashing feet first into the hillside.

“My knee came up and smashed into my face and I was knocked unconscious and must have been out for a couple of minutes,” the former paratrooper said.

When he came to his friends who were with him had called 999 but Adrian was in agony. His pelvis had broken in two, just two inches below his spine, and blood was pouring from his wounds.

Rapid response paramedic Simon, who spent eight years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, was the first on the scene.

“There was blood covering his leg and his right ankle was facing the wrong way – there was so much blood around it I wasn’t sure whether it had been severed,” said the father-of-three, from Merthyr Tydfil.

“He had an open fracture of his left thigh which was bleeding quite badly and was in a really bad way.

“The fire service and police arrived and asked if we wanted to carry him off the mountain, but I didn’t want him moved because I thought that his injuries would have caused him to lose even more blood.

“I think he would have died before we could have got him to hospital if we’d tried to carry him to the ambulance. It’s a miracle he’s pulled through.”

A Sea King helicopter had to airlift Adrian off the mountainside because it could not land. He was transferred to nearby Prince Charles Hospital.

Adrian spent 20 hours on the operating table as surgeons put his body back together again – his wounds were so severe that emergency staff at the hospital in Merthyr Tydfil gave him 16 units of blood in transfusions.

Simon added: “I heard the hospital couldn’t even get his blood pressure up for days which shows what a bad way he was in.

“It’s great to see him on his way to recovery now because it was traumatic for him and his family and it’s fantastic that he wants to do something for the Ambulance Service and I am glad to be able to help him.”

Cycling has been a central part of Adrian’s rehab. He said: “The recuperation is going well and I’m not due to see the specialist until July next year.

“They’ve taken some of the metal rods out of me but there’s still quite a bit in there with pins in my pelvis and more metalwork in my legs.

“The bones have healed and they don’t want to take any more of the pins out unless they start to annoy me.

“I’m just trying to get fit and strong again. I can’t believe how weak I’ve become. I used to walk up Pen-y-Fan in an hour- and-a-half – now it takes me four hours but I’m cycling regularly and it’s really improved my fitness.”

Adrian said of Simon: “He quite simply saved my life. It’s down to him and what he did on that mountainside that I’m here.

“Thanks to him and my consultant surgeons and the care I’ve received I’m able to live as normal a life as I can.

“It’s been great but you can have the best physio in the world and you have still got to grit your teeth and keep going and that’s how you get better.”

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