Top of the world : surviving the Manchester bombing to scale Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair

Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017.

Martin’s teenage daughter Eve was one of the 940 injured, in Eve’s case, gravely.

The dad from Bolton has since become a leading campaigner both for victims of the atrocity and those with spinal cord injuries. Determined to make a difference he took on the ultimate challenge, scaling Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, becoming the second paraplegic to do so, and raising a million pounds for charity.

Reaching the summit, on 13 June 2022 Martin, who was the closest person to the bomber to survive, said, ‘I’ve often wondered why I was saved.

Now I know why. It was for this moment.’This is Martin’s incredible story.