JOHN FARNWORTH used to stay behind after Garforth Town training sessions to practice his skills – now the professional freestyler is attempting to juggle a football as far up Mount Everest as he can!
The 32-year-old is taking on the daunting keepy-uppy challenge to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society in memory of his grandad, who passed away last year with vascular dementia.
To train for the epic feat, the CBBC presenter and former freestyle world champion has been practising on Snowdon and even in altitude chambers to replicate the stress his body will have to endure.
Later this month, Farnworth will fly out to Lukla where he will juggle a football to Base Camp before, depending on weather, see how far he can climb up the world’s highest mountain.
“The initial challenge is to get to Base Camp, so that will be a ten day trek,” Farnworth told The NLP. “Most people walk it, I’m going to juggle a ball! Once I get to Base Camp I’m going to see how far up the mountain I can get.
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