New College first year Rachel is training hard for her trip to the annual San Pablo Cliff Diving competition on 3 July. She took up the dangerous sport after being inspired by her older sister, Katherine’s cycle ride across China two years ago. A biologist, Rachel has had her training limited by the lack of suitable cliffs on the British coastline. Over easter she travelled to Accapulco in Mexico to learn from some of the world’s top adventure divers. Rachel admits to having a fear of heights since she fell out of a tree when she was ten but added that her “fear only made [her] more determined to go to Brazil.”
ARCHIVE: 3rd Week TT 2003
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