Milly Pickles, 26, competed in the Red Bull 400 race six years after her below-the-knee amputation.
By Charlotte Simpson & Riyah Collins"As an amputee, you avoid hills, you avoid rocks," says Milly Pickles. "Because you can't feel your foot and you don't know what's going to happen."Known as the "world's steepest race", it's an all-out 400m sprint up a ski slope with inclines of up to 75 degrees.
Milly, who is from Hertfordshire and now lives in London, threw herself back into her degree, trained for the Paralympics and shared her recovery online with tens of thousands of followers. She says she slipped a few times but was focused on finding spots where fellow competitors had put their feet to help.
"I was just so happy that I'd finished," she says. "I've been crying for days, because I'm just so proud of myself."Despite the huge physical demands of the race, Milly tells Newsbeat she hadn't been able to train much beforehand - just six days, in fact.
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