Chris Moon

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Chris Moon has been described as a ‘hero of our times’ by The Daily Mail. After specialist training from a Royal Engineer bomb disposal officer he supervised and trained former Cambodian soldiers in mine clearance. He is one of the few westerners to have survived abduction by the Khmer Rouge. In 1995 he was blown up walking in a cleared area in Mozambique.  He lost his lower right arm and leg. He survived against all the odds and less than a year after leaving hospital he completed the London Marathon to raise funds for mine injured in Cambodia.  In April 1997 he was the first leg amputee to complete the 250km Great Sahara Run described as the toughest footrace on earth and has gone on to complete some of the harshest and challenging runs and climbs in the world. Chris has been awarded an MBE for services to the HALO Trust clearing anti-personnel mines.

biography

Believing in service Chris started his working life as a volunteer at a centre for the homeless and then joined the army.

After specialist training from a Royal Engineer bomb disposal officer he supervised and trained former Cambodian soldiers in mine clearance. He is one of the few westerners to have survived abduction by the Khmer Rouge, successfully preventing execution and negotiating his release and that of two Cambodian colleagues from a remote jungle base.

In 1995 Chris was blown up walking in a cleared area in Mozambique. He lost his lower right arm and leg. He survived against all the odds because of his high level of fitness (he was a keen runner) and because of his knowledge of first aid.

Less than a year after leaving hospital he completed the London Marathon to raise funds for mine injured in Cambodia. In April 1997 he was the first leg amputee to complete the 250km Great Sahara Run described as the toughest footrace on earth.

In July 1999 he was the first amputee to complete the Badwater Death Valley Ultra-marathon. In April 2000 he jointly led a party climbing Kilimanjaro on a new north route. In May 2000 he completed the 100km Kumamoto volcano run in Japan and in July 2000 was one of only 12 people in the world to do the Death Valley 300 miles, from the lowest point of the USA continuously on foot to the highest point and back again in just over six days in temperatures over 130 degrees Fahrenheit. He did it again in 2001 to test false legs and is one of only a handful of people in the world to complete this double desert crossing twice.

Chris has been awarded an MBE for services to the HALO Trust clearing anti-personnel mines, The US Centre for Disability and PALM international leadership award, The Snowdon Special Award for leadership and honorary degrees and doctorates by the universities of Plymouth, Leicester and Exeter

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