Wheelchair user Oona Dooks has been looking at walkers on Arthur's Seat from her home every day, in hopes she might get to the top one day.
A Scots girl who is a wheelchair user has spent years longingly watching climbers take on Arthur’s Seat from her front door, wishing she could summit the hill, has seen her wish come true, thanks to help from ‘hero’ rugby teams.
Despite the efforts of parents Chris and Eleanor to carry Oona up, they were unable to make it to the top. So when Oona told her mum she was determined to make it, Eleanor posted on social media to enlist the help of others to make her dreams come true. Mum Eleanor told the Record: "It was just an amazing thing for the community to do. They had to pull her up in the wheelchair by ropes for the last part.
"Oona just had the biggest smile you've ever seen on her face. She told the group that they were her heroes."Oorna has looked at Arthur's Seat every day. It's the most inaccessible thing to do in Edinburgh but she doesn't seem to have much fear and will just do what she puts her mind to. The P5 pupil who competes as a para-swimmer for Team Lothian Racers has never let her mobility hold her back from what she wants to achieve in life.
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