A blind worker, alongside four colleagues, is set to climb the UK’s third highest mountain.

The team, working for Norfolk's sight loss charity, Vision Norfolk, aim to raise £5,000 in September by tackling the 3,500ft Mount Snowdon.

This follows Ed Bates' disappointment of being unable to realise his ambition of climbing to Mount Everest's base camp due to medical reasons.

Mr Bates, the charity's hub co-ordinator who was born blind, will participate with community outreach worker Matthew Hodder, chief executive Andrew Morter, services manager and deputy chief executive Barbara Dunn, and leisure and activities co-ordinator Helen King.

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The group will take on the six-hour trek to help people living with sight loss live independent and fulfilled lives.

Matthew Hodder praised Mr Bates as an "inspirational person" and said: "When he heard that he would not be able to make the trip to Everest base camp, I half-jokingly suggested we should create our own Everest by climbing Snowdon - and the idea snowballed from there.”

The team can be sponsored via justgiving.com.