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Dad with £100k bionic leg climbs UK's tallest mountains in just three days
A dad with a £100k bionic leg after losing his limb in a near-fatal motorbike smash has climbed Britain's three tallest mountains in just three days.
Sean Booth, 34, scaled the dizzy heights of the UK's tallest peak, Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, in a likely record time of 8 hours 40 minutes on July 9.
He then climbed and descended Scafell Pike in the Lake District, Cumbria - renowned for being the most difficult of the 'three peaks' - in five-and-a-half hours on July 10.
The following day he conquered Snowdon in Snowdonia National Park, Wales - in five hours 50 minutes.
Sean's time for walking Ben Nevis is thought to be the fastest for an amputee.
Dad-of-four Sean lost his left leg in a motorbike accident in September 2021.
He was fitted with his first bionic leg in August 2023, just after he made his plan for the three-peaks three-day challenge.
His battery-powered bionic leg strides forward when he swings his hip and can switch between different modes - such as stairs, when he moves in specific ways - it can also be operated via his mobile phone.
It is attached via a metal rod inserted into his remaining 8-inches of thigh bone rather than the usual 'socket' fitted prosthesis.
Sean fell and broke the foot of his bionic leg when walking down Ben Nevis, so used the spare he was carrying.
He broke the knee falling on Scafell, and for Snowden, he used a 'Frankenstein leg' his team put together from parts of his old and broken bionic legs.
On the descent from Snowden Sean's other knee became so stiff from use he couldn't bend his leg and had to 'kind of waddle' down.
Sean, a property developer, from Skegness, Lincolnshire, said: "This has been the most incredible experience."
"The views were amazing and I had the most lovely team around me."
"It chokes me up to think that two years ago I couldn't do daily tasks easily and now I've completed this difficult challenge."
"This was a real test for me and the equipment, and now I've done it, the achievement will be an inspiration to help me get out of bed on even the most difficult days."
"It's been a long journey getting to this point and I've enjoyed it."
"For me failing to achieve the goal just wasn't an option."
"I think the recovery is going to be the difficult part."
Sean was knocked off his motorbike by a car while driving home on September 25, 2021.
He was lying on the road when he was driven over by another car.
His left leg was twisted with the foot up by his shoulder, and his left arm was dangling.
Emergency services - including air ambulance - were called and Sean was treated at the roadside for an hour before being taken by ambulance to Hull Royal Infirmary, Yorkshire.
Sean said: "I was conscious throughout, until they gave me anaesthetic in hospital, I knew it was bad, I just concentrated on keeping breathing."
"I didn't want to be put to sleep - while I was awake I knew I was alive."
Sean was worked on for 12 hours by emergency doctors at the hospital.
His parents and sister were told to say their goodbyes because medics were worried he might die.
Sean's had multiple operations since - including his left arm being repaired using one of his ribs.
Sean had three heart attacks - two in the ambulance and one after arriving at hospital - and medics decided he'd have to lose his leg to save his life.
He spent nearly two years in a wheelchair because medics couldn't get a false leg to work on his short and very scarred 'stump'.
Eventually, using money from the insurance payout, he had an £100,000-op called osteointegration - where a metal rod was drilled into his remaining thigh bone - in August 2023.
He got his first bionic leg, also costing £100,000, 12 days later and was walking without sticks by the November.
His battery-powered leg lasts five days on a single charge.
He and his team carried a spare leg on the 27-mile total hike and left another spare at the bottom of the mountains, in case of an emergency.
Sean said the most difficult part of Ben Nevis' 1,345 metres was the steepness.
Sean found climbing to Scafell's 978-metre summit tough because of the small-stone terrain.
He says Snowdon's 1,085 metres were at times hair-raising because everyone was so tired.
He said: "This was one of the hardest things I've done, and such a huge achievement."
"I've managed to walk in places where many people will never go."
"The views were amazing and we had such a lot of fun."
Sean decided he would climb all three peaks when he was in a wheelchair in June 2023.
All his family climbed Snowden with him, including dad Paul, 60, mum, Cath, 58, brother David, 36, and sister, Kerry, 37, climbed Snowdon together.
His children - Tiea 18, Ashton 16, DJ, 16, and Eva, 12 - and members of his medical team climbed all three peaks with him.
Sean's achievement has so far raised £7,000 for Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance and he says "without them I wouldn't be alive"."
With his bionic leg and special fitting Sean can walk up to 15,000 steps a day, and hiked twice a week during training, which he started in February 2025, and going to the gym three days a week.
Sean's also got back in the driving seat of his car, and rides the same model of motorbike he had before the accident.
He said: "I am very lucky that I've been able to pay for this operation and this leg."
"It has given me a normal life."
"I'd like other amputees to know this osteointegration treatment is available, because it's made such a difference to me."
"Without it I'd be in a wheelchair."
"I don't get fantom pain since I've had the op and also because the metal bar goes straight into my bone I can feel when something touches my leg and when my foot hits the floor, that's really useful and different to having a socket-fitted leg."
"I do have difficult times when I think about the accident and everything that has happened, but I usually think of a good joke to get me through."
"I joked that I've never done anything that hasn't cost me an arm and a leg."
"Humour is the best way for me to deal with everything that has happened, it just works for me."
To donate to his fundraiser visit: https://gofund.me/ff1230b3
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