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Stephanie Quintrell

Stephanie Quintrell

Para-equestrian adventurer and Founder of Equine Para-Adventures; first wheelchair-dependent woman to ride across the Pyrenees on horseback (2023).

Jun 25, 2026

19:52
[laughs]
19:52
... my life was down here.
19:53
He could just come home at weekends, and that's the way I saw it.
19:56
That was, you know, we knew he only had a matter of years left, uh, in the Army before he'd be coming out, so we were just kinda just see, we were just, you know, going with that.
20:04
And, and obviously when all that changed, you know, he didn't want to have to be leaving me on a Sunday afternoon and not coming back till the Friday evening for, you know, my parents and friends to have to look after me and me and our son.
20:16
So we kind of, our, our, we, at that point, we moved to be with him in Rutland.
20:24
And so our kind of world changed even more so because I didn't have anyone he knew up there, didn't have any more support, you know, didn't have a support net up there, but we were together as a family.

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51:29
And, uh, w- so, so what, what-

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