RAMBLERS' NEW PRESIDENT BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS

Amar Latif and I share a common love for walking in the Yorkshire Dales, but unlike me, he can't see the glorious sweep of landscape all around him. Amar is blind but - as he proved in Beyond Boundaries, his debut television appearance years ago when he trekked 220 miles across Central America - he doesn't let that stop him.

- JOHN CRAVEN

Since then he has featured in many other programmes (he was the first blind contestant on Celebrity Masterchef) and set up a travel agency for people with visual impairments. Now the man known as the Blind Adventurer has taken on another challenge, as president of Ramblers, the walking charity with around 100,000 members.

"This is such an incredible opportunity to help inspire people who think, for whatever reason, that walking is not for them," he told me. "Having a blind guy as president communicates that rambling is for everyone."