Aitch reveals gruelling training regime as he prepares to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

BACK successful June my favourite rapper Aitch told maine helium was preparing to instrumentality connected his biggest ever situation – climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his dada Mike and a squad of pals to rise wealth for the Down’s Syndrome Association successful honour of his astonishing sister Gracie.

And present with 2 months to go, I caught up with him to find retired how helium is getting on.

“I’ve started my altitude grooming now, that was mega,” said Aitch.

“I’ve been doing incline walks and playing a batch of padel but arsenic the weeks spell connected I’ll beryllium turning up the intensity.”

The rapper, is readying a low-key Christmas and admits he’s dialled down the celebrations to support connected apical of his training.

He said: “I’m having a wholesome Christmas with my household astatine my location truthful I don’t deliberation it’s clip for a blowout. I mightiness person a Baileys.”

So acold Aitch has raised much than £28,000 for the Down’s Syndrome Association and hopes to deed £70,000.

Aitch says helium wants to rise consciousness of Down’s syndrome and extremity the stigma attached to it.

“The simplest mode of explaining it is that Gracie is conscionable the aforesaid arsenic everyone else,” helium tells me.

“She’s astute and precise funny. People should cognize that those with Down’s syndrome tin unrecorded a mean life.

"They should person the aforesaid opportunities different radical have. My occupation is to marque radical realise.”

• To donate to his challenge, sojourn downssyndrome.enthuse.com/pf/aitch.