Jeremy’s 'Beyond Boundaries'
Jeremy Millensted from Repton, Derbyshire, joined nine physically disabled young people and a TV crew for a four week trek across Equador. The 20 year-old who is profoundly deaf, has now returned, and his adventures will be featured in ‘Beyond Boundaries – Across the Andes’ – a documentary which will be shown tomorrow.
Jeremy has had a cochlear implant since the age of 12, and although it gives him partial hearing, lip reading what other people in the team were saying was difficult when they didn’t look at him as they spoke, or if they looked away whilst talking quickly. Feeling isolated, he came close to waving goodbye to all of them but things improved. “It was hard, really hard “, explained Jeremy, "but I want to help hearing people understand what it is like to be deaf. That’s why I went on this expedition”.
Beyond Boundaries will be screened on BBC2 on Friday 9th May at 9pm, with the subsequent three parts of the series to be screened on the following three Fridays.
