AN ARMY officer who recovered from horrific wounds to dedicate himself to charity fundraising announced yesterday that he had reached his £1m target.
Major Phil Packer, 36, was told he would never walk again after suffering a spinal injury in a rocket attack in Iraq in February last year.
But, despite losing the use of his legs, he has completed a series of inspirational challenges, from rowing the Channel to walking the London Marathon, to raise money for the charity Help for Heroes.
Maj Packer, who lives in Westminster, London, now has one final fundraising mountain to climb before he concentrates his efforts on promoting opportunities for disabled people.
On June 9, he will start a three-day attempt to pull himself 1,800ft up the sheer rock face of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in the US.
Maj Packer, of the Royal Military Police, rowed across the Channel in February.
This month he crossed the finishing line of the London Marathon on crutches at the pace of two miles a day, a fortnight after it began.
