Nikki Bradley: ‘I snapped my femur in half when I fell off a chair’

Nikki Bradley is an adventurer from Donegal. Despite the likelihood of a leg amputation, she has completed an array of challenges, including a British SAS fitness test and scaling an Icelandic glacier. She plans to climb Slieve League this month before taking up skiing.

Nikki Bradley’s story has so many remarkable lows and highs that there is scarcely room to mention many jaw-dropping events.

For example, in 2015 Bradley thought she had smashed the world record for running 5km on crutches, easing up.