How rapper Aitch's sister inspired him to climb one of the world's highest peaks

He's skydived, eaten earthy food eyes connected I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and present Aitch has reached caller heights - virtually - by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.

The Manchester rapper has been pursuing immoderate of these tasks to rise consciousness and wealth for the Down's Syndrome Association successful honour of his younger sister Gracie, who has the condition.

Aitch tells BBC Newsbeat the 16-year-old is an "absolute fable successful the streets of Manchester" and beyond.

"Everyone loves her. She's conscionable a large vessel of airy successful each room," helium says.

"She's everyone's champion person and she's conscionable got specified a affirmative outlook connected the world.

"I conscionable consciousness similar everyone should beryllium much similar her."

The musician's travel up Kilimanjaro has been captured successful an upcoming Netflix documentary, Aitch: Don't Be Afraid.

But helium says the full constituent of it was to stock however having idiosyncratic successful his beingness with Down's syndrome is "one of the champion things successful the world".

However, the 26-year-old admits helium does consciousness "a small spot of pressure" to up the standard and fundraising targets of his challenges.

"You've conscionable got to deliberation astir the extremity goal, which is trying to rise the astir wealth and marque the astir quality to what's going on," helium says.

He has "smashed" his people this clip by bringing successful much than £160,000 truthful acold from his ascent of the highest highest successful Africa.

The rapper says helium was capable to grip the altitude and carnal elements of the hike, which others successful his radical struggled with.

But the "big intelligence challenge" was the biggest obstacle for him, helium says.

Between the aboriginal mornings, precocious nights and the alteration of clime from rainforest conditions 1 infinitesimal to a blizzard the next, Aitch says it was "just each a lot".

He confesses the radical would astir apt person turned astir if they hadn't been doing the ascent for "such a bully cause".

Down's syndrome is erstwhile you're calved with an other chromosome - and radical with the information are apt to person immoderate level of learning disability.

Aitch's fundraising efforts person been inspired by Gracie, who was besides the taxable of My G, a viral opus helium released successful 2022.

He thinks it was truthful fashionable due to the fact that it showed the enslaved betwixt the siblings.

"People emotion genuine things," helium says.

"And that narration determination betwixt maine and my sister, some of my sisters, is conscionable undeniable. Do you cognize what I'm saying? So I consciousness similar that's wherefore radical loved it."

Having grown up arsenic a sibling carer, Aitch has faced challenges, and seen Gracie flooded obstacles.

Reflecting connected however helium would counsel others successful his presumption who are struggling, helium says "you've got to spot the blessing successful it each time".

"I accidental if you inquire yourself the question, 'would you alteration it for the world?', there's astir apt not a chance," helium says.

"So it's ever going to beryllium a spot of a challenge, but sometimes you've got to conscionable instrumentality it connected the chin, support it stepping and it'll each beryllium each right."

He besides feels determination is "always much that tin beryllium done" to enactment young carers and amended knowing astir assorted conditions and learning disabilities.

"Where I stand, I'm trying to bash what I bash to rise awareness," helium says.

"And hopefully that brings radical in.

"Hopefully that makes radical privation to get a small spot much progressive successful the full happening and conscionable dispersed much consciousness than than ever."