Amputee Milly Pickles completes 'world's steepest race'

Milly Pickles

"As an amputee, you avoid hills, you avoid rocks," says Milly Pickles. "Because you can't feel your foot and you don't know what's going to happen."

Milly's just returned from Slovenia, where she competed in the Red Bull 400.

Known as the "world's steepest race", it's an all-out 400m (1,310ft) sprint up a ski slope with inclines of up to 75 degrees.

"It was unbelievably tough, it was so awful," Milly tells BBC Newsbeat. "Every time I looked up, it felt like there was forever to go."

Despite that, the 26-year-old did reach the finish line, becoming the first amputee to do so.

And Milly says she's never felt prouder - not least because she'd been unable to train until a week before the race.

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